Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Mark Steyn and Rob Long listen once again to Ronald Reagan’s 1964 speech, “A Time for Choosing.”

Ronald Reagan: Senator Fulbright . . . has . . . referred to the President as “our moral teacher and our leader.” . . . Well, I, for one, resent it.
Mark Steyn: What is fascinating about the age of Obama, and about what Senator Fulbright was saying, is what I call, “the persistence of the monarchical urge” – two and a third centuries after George III was given the boot, there are a lot of people who want a strong, charismatic leader who knows what’s best for you. I don’t. I like citizen legislators, and I don’t regard the president of the United States as “my leader.”
Rob Long: That’s exactly right – he’s only the chief executive of the administrative branch of government.

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