Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of the principal criteria to be applied to successful science is that its results are almost always obvious retrospectively; unfortunately, they seldom are prospectively. Common sense provides a kind of ultimate validation after science has completed its work; it seldom anticipates what science is going to discover.
The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up. . not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U. S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world. . not an unending commitment in Iraq.