A year after election, Obama focuses on schools - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com:
"Speaking one year to the day he was elected, President Obama this afternoon used the anniversary to call for 'a national mission' to improve public education and build it into a pillar -- along with an overhauled health care system and clean energy jobs -- of the new economy.
'One year ago, Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see. Election Day was a day of hope, it was a day of possibility, but it was also a sobering one because we knew even then that we faced an array of challenges that would test us as a country. We had a financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst we had seen in generations. We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world,' Obama said at Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisc."
"Speaking one year to the day he was elected, President Obama this afternoon used the anniversary to call for 'a national mission' to improve public education and build it into a pillar -- along with an overhauled health care system and clean energy jobs -- of the new economy.
'One year ago, Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see. Election Day was a day of hope, it was a day of possibility, but it was also a sobering one because we knew even then that we faced an array of challenges that would test us as a country. We had a financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst we had seen in generations. We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world,' Obama said at Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisc."