As you watch this speech, listen for the points where his voice quivers, or breaks. That's the emotion behind his words, giving them a kind of sincerity not found in his successors (except once, by Bush Jr).

This is what a leader and President sounds like. This is what inspired a nation, to rise from its knees in the feces it had been mired in by its own people, to stand tall in the shining city on a hill. It is an inspiration, regardless of personal charisma and popularity, that few Presidents before, and no President since, and certainly not the poseur in the White House today, can match.

I had forgotten what had made the 1980s the magical time in America it had been...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fy-uhxiX...

Why indeed have we returned to where we were before he showed us we were better than we believed?


I confess, I still listen to Aqua:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VftrOhWIe...