Hey, I can be wrong
Sep. 1st, 2004 11:01 pmI have to confess, I am not a big fan of Garrison Kiellor. It seems to me he plays his audience for saps.
But this,... this reminds me that no man is all of a piece.
I wish I was being more interesting, not so single minded, but the past couple of years have made me more passionate about matters political.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
libertango and I were sitting with my, then, girlfriend's father on the night Bush pere beat Dukakis. He wanted to know why we were so blase about it. He said that if this had been Kennedy losing he would have been devastated.
He figured that the passions of youth had burnt out of him, but wondered where our fire was. It wasn't for Dukakis. It wasn't against Bush. Yes, we thought him the lesser of the two candidates, but he wasn't a menace to the Republic.
This time around... I can't imagine, don't want to ponder what another four years of this man will do to the country. I'm an American. I look at Korea, and Iraq, and Ukraine, and ponder what I would be like, how I would look at the world, were I born a bred in one of those places. But I wasn't, and I don't like the way I see things going if he wins, and can't, quite, see myself leaving if he does, so I really want him to lose.
So, this is what Kiellor had to say... The stink of this election
"There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn’t the Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it’s 9/11 that we keep coming back to. It wasn’t the “end of innocence,” or a turning point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security. And patriotism shouldn’t prevent people from asking hard questions of the man who was purportedly in charge of national security at the time.
Whenever I think of those New Yorkers hurrying along Park Place or getting off the No.1 Broadway local, hustling toward their office on the 90th floor, the morning paper under their arms, I think of that non-reader George W. Bush and how he hopes to exploit those people with a little economic uptick, maybe the capture of Osama, cruise to victory in November and proceed to get some serious nation-changing done in his second term.
This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads. They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm."
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But this,... this reminds me that no man is all of a piece.
I wish I was being more interesting, not so single minded, but the past couple of years have made me more passionate about matters political.
libertango and I were sitting with my, then, girlfriend's father on the night Bush pere beat Dukakis. He wanted to know why we were so blase about it. He said that if this had been Kennedy losing he would have been devastated. He figured that the passions of youth had burnt out of him, but wondered where our fire was. It wasn't for Dukakis. It wasn't against Bush. Yes, we thought him the lesser of the two candidates, but he wasn't a menace to the Republic.
This time around... I can't imagine, don't want to ponder what another four years of this man will do to the country. I'm an American. I look at Korea, and Iraq, and Ukraine, and ponder what I would be like, how I would look at the world, were I born a bred in one of those places. But I wasn't, and I don't like the way I see things going if he wins, and can't, quite, see myself leaving if he does, so I really want him to lose.
So, this is what Kiellor had to say... The stink of this election
"There is a stink drifting through this election year. It isn’t the Florida recount or the Supreme Court decision. No, it’s 9/11 that we keep coming back to. It wasn’t the “end of innocence,” or a turning point in our history, or a cosmic occurrence, it was an event, a lapse of security. And patriotism shouldn’t prevent people from asking hard questions of the man who was purportedly in charge of national security at the time.
Whenever I think of those New Yorkers hurrying along Park Place or getting off the No.1 Broadway local, hustling toward their office on the 90th floor, the morning paper under their arms, I think of that non-reader George W. Bush and how he hopes to exploit those people with a little economic uptick, maybe the capture of Osama, cruise to victory in November and proceed to get some serious nation-changing done in his second term.
This year, as in the past, Republicans will portray us Democrats as embittered academics, desiccated Unitarians, whacked-out hippies and communards, people who talk to telephone poles, the party of the Deadheads. They will wave enormous flags and wow over and over the footage of firemen in the wreckage of the World Trade Center and bodies being carried out and they will lie about their economic policies with astonishing enthusiasm."
Read the rest
