Kearns Goodwin: Obama should argue for 'much more' big government

KEARNS GOODWIN:  And I'm not sure either candidate knows how to break that bipartisan problem that we have right now. I think, however, there was a road map for Obama's acceptance speech in the reference that Mr. Romney made to Neil Armstrong. And I think you talked about this earlier: Neil Armstrong, as the notion of an entrepreneur who got to the moon, it's just the opposite. It was government investment, and then followed by private innovation--and that's really what's in the stimulus bill. It may be that it didn't produce the jobs that we wanted but it did invest in education, it did invest in energy, and a lot of those projects worked. All we know about (is) Solyndra. Mr. Obama has not made a good apology--not an apology, a defense of what he actually did. What the health care bill did, what the Dodd-Frank has done, and he has to come out full throttle. If he doesn't believe in the government investment--he has to defend government and defend investment as a down payment for the future and say, "If I'm elected it will go much more forward in this direction." But if he doesn't do it, people can't do it for him. It's up to him.