A Script for 'Sputnik'

摘要

Barack obama is coming off the most historic legislative achievements since Lyndon Johnson, but politics is the ultimate what-have-you-done-for-me-lately business. The president needs to begin charting a new course now for the nation. Notice how I didn't say "for the world." Global leadership is essential, but our preeminent challenge today is national. Obama said recently that we're in a "sputnik moment," which was a reference to the shock experienced in the United States when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space on Oct. 4,1957.1 know the date by heart because I was born two days later.