Ray and I were talking the other day about the death of the art of politcal speech writing.  It seems that when we were young in times long ago Presidents used to sound “presidential.”  It now seems that the present generation doesn’t have much to hold on to; to tell their grandkids, “I remember when he gave that speech, we knew then that we were living in an important time.”  Regardless of how any of us feel about our elected officials, it is their words, that in many ways, define our generation. (more…)