Can anyone explain what that "SECOND American Century" talk was all about?

[charlie and algernon]

Did the years between 1776-1900 not happen? Did we just imagine them? Or do they not count because the US wasn't a superpower then?

[Politicalboi]

1. Maybe they meant

Second Amendment Century.

[BeyondGeography]

2. That was the preseason

Thing is, we've been reduced to playing Superpower Old Timers games now but we can't admit it.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Second century ,means 1876-1976, around or before the Civil Rights movement

Ah, the repugs do miss those days...

[Pterodactyl]

4. The term "American Century" refers to the time in the 20th century when America became prominent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Century

Hope that helps!

[NV Whino]

5. In 2000 they ran with New American Century

I think it was a play on that. But who knows. Not much of anything they said made sense.

[NYC_SKP]

6. I have the transcript here:

I don't want their only inheritance to be an enormous government that has overtaxed, overspent and over-borrowed a great people into second-class citizenship.

I want them to live in a second American century.

A second American century of strong economic growth where those who are willing to work hard will have good paying jobs to support their families and reach their dreams.

A second American century where real American exceptionalism is not a political punch line, but is evident to everyone in the world just by watching the way our government conducts its business and everyday Americans live their lives.

A second American century where our military is strong, our values are sure, our work ethic is unmatched and our Constitution remains a model for anyone in the world struggling for liberty.

Let us choose a path that will be remembered for generations to come. Standing strong for freedom will make the next century as great an American century as the last one.

This is the American way.




http://www.npr.org/2012/08/28/160213518/transcript-gov-chris-christies-convention-speech

[jmowreader]

10. If that's what they want, why the fuck are they running a corporate raider for president?

Dear Governor Christie:

I read the transcript of your speech at the Republican National Convention. In it you called for a "second American century."

The "second American century" you described has been thwarted by Private Equity buccaneers like Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and Henry Kravis of KKR. Their work revolved around finding hardworking Americans in good jobs, buying the companies they worked for, firing the hardworking Americans and shipping their jobs overseas.

It was thwarted by war profiteers like Halliburton and Bechtel, who charged the Defense Department $125,000 a year to supply them with one cook--a job that, when the Greatest Generation did it during World War II, paid fifty bucks a month and all the SOS you could eat.

And it was thwarted by a Republican party who decided on Election Night 2008 that it would be okay to keep 100 million people out of work if it cost one man his job.

If this is the American way, why is the Republican Party so insistent on trying to put one of the people who destroyed the American Way into the White House?

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Everything post the neocon's 9/11 power grab. "Project for a new american century".

[On the Road]

9. It's What Pterodactyl Said

There are many things wrong with this convention, but calling for "A Second American Century" was not among them.