Jon Stewart, talking to Lou Dobbs. Part 2. Part 3:

Dobbs:

We have a country that is fragile. That it is being governed as if it had unlimited resources. That we had every reason, because we are a superpower, to squander wealth and lives and blood…

We have a responsibility not to push this country farther than it can bear…

It is a time in which we have a nation that is extraordinarily delicate, extraordinarily vulnerable. And it’s time to start rethinking some of the orthodoxies, whether one is a liberal, a conservative, a Republican, or a Democrat.

Stewart:

I don’t think we are a delicate country. And I don’t think we’re a fragile country. I think that we’re an incredibly tenacious. The whole fabric of this country was born of people who came from a place they didn’t want to be to a place they wanted to be, to do whatever they had to do to make that. And that ethos still lives in this country.

The idea that trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York will destroy us, or trying to bring universal health care to people will destroy us, or trying to solve the problem of global warming will destroy us is trumped up fear that’s being used as a wedge to flatter people into voting for them. And it is absolutely not a part of our national character. The people who continually tell me how much they love this country and I don’t… also say how little this country can accomplish to overcome the problems that all countries face.

It might be worth remembering Jon Stewart saying this to Lou Dobbs’ face.

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