I drool over the speech that Mr. Obama recently did.
Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?
I simply can not imagine a Spanish politician defending a tax rise for the wealthy and the strongest companies. Both in here and in the USA, companies have a strong control over politicians and fill their pockets, but apparently Obama has gone over that and sticked to his social values, while here every lame-duck is dirty with corruption. Or even worse, there is no one here with acceptable rhetoric skills that make people believe they care any more.
Hearing Obama to say some of the epic statements that he did, is not only a check for US congress, but also for all the other European countries. He is pointing social equality as the path to follow after crisis recovery, and this will obviuosly have more impact that the speeches that scholars, NGOs or caring people have been pushing for years.
Movements like this one make fair the Peace Nobel Prize he got years ago. Because he might not be as brave as Malala or Kailash, but he shows another type of bravery standing with his principles, not avoiding political confrontation and using his position – the one with highest influence in the world- to try to get out something good, despite the political mistakes he does too.