We really are our brother's keeper

After listening to Barack Obama's acceptance speech tonight, I found myself wondering what the Republicans would say to counter Obama's soaring rhetoric.

I know I could just have turned to Fox News to hear the junior partner in the firm of Fat Man and Little Boy -- Sean Hannity -- but believe me, life is too short to listen to Hannity or to his senior partner, Rush Limbaugh.

I figure they'll go after him on the "big government can't do things as well as the free market" attack, saying that America works best when the government gets out of the way and allows real freedom.

Except it never does.

Get out of the way, I mean.

Look at all the tax breaks and subsidies available to big corporations and those who are already rich. Look at the obstacles in the way of folks really pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

Heck, some of their "self-made men" were anything but. Limbaugh's first job in radio was at a station his father owned. George W. Bush never had a company where he wasn't either backed or bailed out by his father's wealthy friends.

So anybody who needs help getting started -- scholarships, loans, tax breaks -- certainly shouldn't feel guilty.

America works best when we help each other.

It's a pretty good message.