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The World That Awaits
by possibly noteworthy at 7:24 am EDT, Oct 29, 2008

A memo to the president-elect, from Richard Haass:

You won, but at a price, as some of the things you said were better left unsaid. Even more important, the campaign did not prepare the public for the hard times to come.
The good news is that many of the arrows in Iraq are finally pointing in the right direction and it will not dominate your presidency. The bad news is that you know you are in for a rough ride when Iraq is the good news.
This is a sobering moment in American history. Some 21st-century version of the fireside chat is called for. My reading of things is that the American people are ready to be leveled with.

From the archive:

Are Americans suffering from an undue sense of entitlement?
Somebody said to me the other day that the entitlement we need to get rid of is our sense of entitlement.

RE: The World That Awaits
by flynn23 at 5:02 pm EDT, Oct 29, 2008

possibly noteworthy wrote:
This is a sobering moment in American history. Some 21st-century version of the fireside chat is called for. My reading of things is that the American people are ready to be leveled with.

I think this is the most important part of an inaugural speech. Let's get the elephant in the room on the table. NOW! Level with us. We can't do everything you promised. We get it. We're broken. What are we going to fix? How? And tell us what we need to do to fix it. That will unify us like nothing else since 9/11 and we can use that energy to get a lot of important things done. Just do it. Don't talk about "reaching across the aisle" or "making bridges to change". Don't sugar coat it. Be blunt. Be real. Just get it out there. NOW! Clear. Truthful.