No, she deployed it as an invocation.
Gerald
> Yeah, Dennis Hastert (Speaker of the House, the guy who decides which
> legislation reaches the floor for a vote, when, and in what form) quoted a
> snippet of it the other day. I'm sure it's been referred to several times.
> The whole sad spectacle is too much for me to want to be bathed in.
>
> Did she get it right, that it's a warning rather than an invocation of
> paradise on earth?
>
> Mark
>
> At 08:54 AM 6/11/2004, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> >Strager still, the Winthrop passage was just read by Supreme Court
Justice
> >Sandra Day O'Connor (Reagan appointee).
> >
> >-- Gerald Schwartz
> >
> > > Hi Mark
> > >
> > > if Nancy Reagan isn't reading Winthrop's City on the Hill passage at
> > > the funeral oration right now
> > >
> > > spot on contestation
> > >
> > > I read a passionate statement on the commons and the commonwealth and
> > > the responsibility that accompanies such a charged burden
> > >
> > > love and love
> > > cris
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