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Earning hope

These are cynical times, and this is supposed to be a season of hope.

We have the president of the United States flying off in fierce secrecy at Thanksgiving to greet the American troops in Iraq — an unabashedly Hollywood patriotic moment — followed almost immediately by more deaths of more soldiers far from home.


These are cynical times, and this is supposed to be a season of hope. We have people who’ve worked hard all their lives not sure if they’ll be able to afford medicine and health care in their "golden years," even with the changes in Medicare. We have people who get up and slog off to work day after day, willing, able, committed, but not sure if the economy will hold or the company will have heart and the job will still be there.

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