If that sounded familiar, it may be because Vice-President Al Gore said something very similar fifteen years ago, when he accepted the Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention and said “Whether you’re in a suburb or an inner city, whether you raise crops or drive hogs and cattle on a farm, drive a big rig on the interstate or drive e-commerce on the Internet, whether you’re starting out to raise your own family or getting ready to retire after a lifetime of hard work, so often powerful forces and powerful interests stand in your way and the odds seem stacked against you, even as you do what’s right for you and your family.”
.. Bush accused the Obama Administration “of running us straight in the direction of the greatest risk of all—military inferiority,”
.. Senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, who has introduced legislation that would invest a trillion dollars—no more than the cost of a small Mideast war—to modernize the nation’s infrastructure over a five-year period.