As the 2007 speech shows, Mr. Obama was once quite passionate about improving the lives of what he called "young men and women without hope, without miracles, and without a sense of destiny other than life on the edge — the edge of the law, the edge of the economy, the edge of family structures and communities".
Now Dave is 10 years old, but the results keep coming -- slowly and without miracles, of course.
Still plenty of states without miracles posted lower unemployment rates; New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, among others are all out performing Texas.
In 1983, John Paul lowered the requirement to one miracle for beatification and another one for sainthood, while martyrs — those who had been killed because of their faith — could be beatified without miracles at all.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — On Thursday night, for the first time in forever, the Jets triumphed without a comeback, without a seeming miracle, without the divine intervention from the football gods that seemed to guide them over the past month.
Each day, even if we advance a centimeter, we are going forward -- without any miracles, without breaking away from our international commitments, simply doing what needs to be done".
"In a certain sense, for many Catholics he's already a saint, even without beatification and, let's be honest, even without a miracle".
But that of course would be as much a wished-for-fantasy as any of the other apocryphal ones… My own sense is that Mark, as I said, without a miracle at either end, remains the most moving and "human".
There are plenty of people out there who look at the way the All Blacks are playing – not to mention the way the Springboks have added a sprinkling of panache to their power game – and reach the conclusion that England cannot possibly win their home World Cup next year without a miracle.
