All You Have to Do Is Dream

By GAIL COLLINS
NYT

It is the obligation of every American to have a dream. The bigger the better.

One of my personal dreams is that we should have a public health insurance option. To tell you the truth, this was not on my list at the beginning of 2009. But so many really irritating people have been announcing that a public option is impossible/wrong/possibly treasonous that now I yearn for it night and day.

And if we’re really going to get the economy rolling again, everybody is going to need a lot more dreams involving very large plasma TVs. Plus new cars and maybe a really snazzy espresso machine.

The White House had a dream of getting Chicago the Olympics. Didn’t work out. At all. And some people feel it was sort of weird for Barack Obama to throw himself into the fight with such ardor. They may have a point. But if the president is going to take a flier on an improbably and possibly delusional quest, I would prefer that it involve lobbying the Olympic committee rather than, say, invading a country.

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