It is safe to assume that in his address on Tuesday, Barack Obama will invoke the need for shared sacrifice. The idea is a banker, forgive the expression, for any inaugural, but especially now. Equally predictable is that he will develop the theme with a certain inattention to detail. It is inspiring to call for sacrifice but something of a downer to tell people too precisely what that sacrifice is going to be. Allow me to shoulder this burden.
It always scares me when Brits or the French tell us what we need to do, being how well they've done themselves....it's kind of like asking a veteran French General to bring us victory in the war. hmmm how far back one must go to find a French military victory!
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