“I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy,” President Obama said Thursday night in accepting the Democratic nomination for a second term. “I never have. You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.”
But as with Republicans in Tampa a week ago, the content of Mr. Obama’s remarks was short on those hard truths.
Addressing his party’s convention in Charlotte, Mr. Obama acknowledged problems that Republican nominee Mitt Romney ignored or dismissed in his own acceptance speech, such as the impact of global warming. He offered more specific goals than did Mr. Romney, many of which he had previously set: doubling U.S. exports, training 2 million workers at community colleges, recruiting 100,000 math and science teachers. Those, and a few new goals—creating 1 million manufacturing jobs over four years, cutting oil imports in half by 2020, cutting in half the growth in college tuition—are laudable. But Mr. Obama did not explain how he would achieve them or prepare the country for the difficult choices they would demand. …
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