I've lost the sources, but I'm pretty sure she's quite proud of how
she ignored the accepted scientific advice on a lot of environmental
issues. She appeased the fundies by seeming to ban books but in
reality not. She seems to be an opportunist who will play any card to
gain her advantage. I think she plays to Ken's idea of an ignoramus,
but I also think she's dangerous.
Yes, I saw Jackson. The whole acceptance speech was emotionally
charged. It had elements of Chaunce the gardener on the one hand, the
good bits nicked from a variety of sources, including Reagan ("beacons
of hope", I think), and some tremendous cadences that lifted me away.
"calloused hand by calloused hand", hope but also sacrifice. In spite
of the fact that the words weren't shaped for me, I could feel myself
being drawn in and up. As an orator, he's fantastic.
I'm not sure how Obama slipped through the net. I might try and read
Obama's memoir. The reviews I've read have been good.
Roger
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Douglas Barbour
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> Given the way the two presidential hopefuls ran their races, the real divide
> in the US seems not so much to be that of race any more but that between
> those who seek intelligent, curious, learned leadership & those who take
> pride in their ignorance. That it remains such a close race between those
> two Americas is still rather frightening. Palin's proud ignorance of what
> fruit fly experimentation has meant for 80 years or so is truly shocking.
> And she was continually applauded for such a stance.
>
> Obama steps into a political Augeian Stable and it will take a long time for
> even the best person to clean up such a mess. We can only wish him the best.
> That he has a real version of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition behind him
> gives one hope (& did you watch Jackson in the crowd as Obama spoke?)
>
> Doug
> On 5-Nov-08, at 12:29 PM, Roger Day wrote:
>
>> I was watching the round-up interviews tonight and Spike Lee said
>> something interesting: if you look at the audiences for Palin &
>> McCain, they're all white, but for Obama they're mixed. Sure enough, I
>> watched Obama's speech - and boy can he speak - and the audience was
>> mixed. I then watched McCain's resignation speech - which was quite
>> graceful btb and at odds with his campaign invective that I've seen in
>> the 100 x 150 square - and sure enough, a white audience throughout.
>> It was almost a different planet.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> We now know that 95 per cent of the universe is made of the something other
> than those 12 particles. And we have very little idea what the other 95 per
> cent is, which is kind of embarrassing.
>
> Brian Cox
>
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