Don't worry, I'm not inviting us to debate health care reform. I'm fascinated by something else.
If you listened until the end, you may have noticed the president's subtle reference to Frederick Jackson Turner's "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." He was talking about the "American character," and he said:
I've thought about that phrase quite a bit in recent days — the character of our country. One of the unique and wonderful things about America has always been our self-reliance, our rugged individualism, our fierce defense of freedom and our healthy skepticism of government. And figuring out the appropriate size and role of government has always been a source of rigorous and, yes, sometimes angry debate. That's our history.
How Turnerian is that?!
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