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I've gotten in a long time...
but I think I'll stay up long enough to chip away at my inbox (on items that my sligtly inebriated state is not likely to threaten)...
and to respond to any other comments that may appear in this thread in the next hour or so.
Healthcare NOT Warfare! (Petition)
by jgilhousen on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 01:52:39 AM PDT
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It's been a long slog since then. I hope we see a Democratic sweep this year. The country needs it!
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious...that you've got to put your bodies on the gears...and make it stop. -- Mario Savio
by Boston Boomer on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 06:05:35 AM PDT
And great JFK quote as a tag. It's one with which I am unfamiliar. Do you know from what speech or writing it was taken?
by jgilhousen on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 06:11:33 AM PDT
When I look back to JFK's speeches and compare them to Bush's, I want to weep.
by Boston Boomer on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 06:15:29 AM PDT
I should have remembered that. I certainly remember watching it on live teevee in my grade school classroom as he delivered it, and reading it several times thereafter.
Anyway, thanks for giving me the reminder. I'll pull up a copy and underline it.
And trying to compare GWB's speeches to anything delivered by JFK... well... the word futility is insufficient.
by jgilhousen on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 06:21:20 AM PDT
He was amazing on his feet. I'm a bit older than you, I guess. I was 12 in 1960.
by Boston Boomer on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 06:35:36 AM PDT
And just so you know, I turned 9 on June 8, 1960.
I had a college media course that used clips from the 1960 debates and several of the JFK news conferences, too. Pretty amazing stuff. The image is clear even after all these years. (College was a long time ago, too.)
by jgilhousen on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 01:20:26 PM PDT
wide narrow
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