Bush said what?! 'I'm a uniter!' Holy Moses, what a joke. The only way he
united any group was to form a common enemy and attack. Am I glad he has
gone. He doesn't have any truly executive powers between now and Januray 20,
does he? That would be frightening.
Andrew
2008/11/6 Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Hooray!!!
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> Well said, Fred. Even from this distance, the hope spread. Andrew
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> When Reagan was elected in '80, my wife (whom I didn't meet until '82) had,
> she told me, a dreadful lonely feeling that "from now on there would be no
> 'we,' only 'me'." Obama has a schooled patience, an observant detachment;
> he is as close to an intellectual (as opposed to a "wonk") as we can ever
> expect. But when he speaks, as he did last night, of community, mutual
> respect, all of us being in this together, one feels he means it. That it
> isn't a transparent self-serving lie, like Bush's "I'm a uniter," but that
> this vision represents Obama's OWN hope - what has carried him as much as,
> perhaps more than, ambition. And this, more than anything, is what I have
> found so moving today.
>
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Andrew
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