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Thomas Vorce reporting from Grass Valley, CA
Saturday, May 22, 2004
Does anyone remember what it was like to have a president who published his first book when he was twenty and got a positive review from Winston Churchill? Can anyone remember what it was like to travel abroad when people knew that our president read a book a day, our first lady spoke fluent French and was friends with the likes of Robert Frost? Can you possibly imagine how proud we were to hear the leader of the free world say “Ich bin ein Berliner?" Does anyone remember what Kennedy's reaction to Roger Blough (ceo of US Steel)
when he artificially raised the price of steel?
You didn't need credit cards to travel abroad because people liked Americans so much we were often invited into their homes. Do you think Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld have any idea of what I am talking about?
Just because some fundamentalist Baptists were able to confuse the South rising again and Papist plots to rule America JFK was shot. Lyndon Johnson was a saint compared to the pretenders that are using the faith to justify power in the hear and now. Yup! there was a time when the pursuit of knowledge was admired and not the work of the devil. Bill Moyers has had to be the apologist for the consequences of protestant xenophobia for too long. And show me a time when the literary IQ of leadership was not a stylized affectation of west Texas ranching (he's even afraid of horses.)
Susan Sontag has just published an article in the NY Times Sunday May 23, 2004 edition on the real meaning of the torture pictures in Iraq. Now that’s it’s obvious we bought style over content I suggest we take responsibility for this Frankenstein our greed has roth and do something about this hideous consensus that we are led to believe is our patriotism.
when he artificially raised the price of steel?
You didn't need credit cards to travel abroad because people liked Americans so much we were often invited into their homes. Do you think Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld have any idea of what I am talking about?
Just because some fundamentalist Baptists were able to confuse the South rising again and Papist plots to rule America JFK was shot. Lyndon Johnson was a saint compared to the pretenders that are using the faith to justify power in the hear and now. Yup! there was a time when the pursuit of knowledge was admired and not the work of the devil. Bill Moyers has had to be the apologist for the consequences of protestant xenophobia for too long. And show me a time when the literary IQ of leadership was not a stylized affectation of west Texas ranching (he's even afraid of horses.)
Susan Sontag has just published an article in the NY Times Sunday May 23, 2004 edition on the real meaning of the torture pictures in Iraq. Now that’s it’s obvious we bought style over content I suggest we take responsibility for this Frankenstein our greed has roth and do something about this hideous consensus that we are led to believe is our patriotism.
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