In the what- if-our-politicians-had-guts category…
and said what they really thought . . . George McGovern is an interesting guy:
“[M]ost Americans see the establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love,” McGovern asserted in one of his campaign speeches. “It is the establishment center that has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster-a terrible cancer eating away the soul of the nation. … It was not the American worker who designed the Vietnam war or our military machine. It was the establishment wise men, the academicians of the center.
“I have no fear of doing battle with some character threatening me with a box cutter. What sets my teeth on edge is seeing a frail little aging woman trying to get her shoes off to be searched, lest she slip by with some trinket that could endanger the republic.”
[The Patriot Act is] “completely unnecessary … a contradiction of the Bill of Rights,” said the 83-year-old McGovern. “I’ll go to jail rather than accept such an invasion of my freedom as an American.”
In the I-know-it’s-only-a-movie category
. . . but this speech stays with me. This is what I want from a leader.
some of my favorite lines…
america isn’t easy. america is advanced citizenship…
we have serious problems to solve. and we need serious people to solve them.
…making you afraid of it and telling you who is to blame for it.
i was so busy keeping my job, i forgot to do my job…
In the why-don’t-we-have-reporters-like-this category
an Irish journalist (and woman) nails George Bush to the wall…
In the are-you-seriously-for-real category
maybe the only time i will ever agree with Sean Hannity
don’t rec the pony. chit. chat. and remember: to be be excellent to each other.
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i remembered the friday pony!!!
gotta get out to the garden….back later
I have always admired George McGovern — an eloquent, honest man!
I think George really believes the things he says — at this point!
The Phelps’ woman needs an exorcist!
Thanks, pf8!