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Is the American Dream still alive and viable?


Joel Hirschhorn
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I urge people that like logical contradictions to read a new oped by Medved at:

http://townhall.com/Columnists/MichaelMedved/2008/08/28/the_big_contradiction_from_the_denver_dems

Here is the opening framing of the issue by Medved:

Is the United States a land of limitless horizons, where hard work and big dreams enable people of humble background to scale dizzying heights of privilege and power?

Or is this a society of slammed doors and blocked opportunities, of a trapped middle class and shattered hope, where ordinary people can only provide a better life for their children with the help of an activist government and dramatic new policies?

The Denver Democrats insist that both descriptions are true, and they fail to acknowledge the obvious contradiction in the two primary messages of their convention.

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