Difficult problems when Democrats and Republicans are alike; when there is
no representation of organised labour. Female, Black, White - if they're all
singing from the same hymn sheet of neoliberal economis and world policy,
why vote? Hilary Clinton is awful because she supported Imperial US war on
Iraq. Now she's finding that out.
Trouble is, can you honestly get a cig paper between any one of them?
Love All The People - Bill Hicks
R
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: "Poetry" versus "Prose" in New Hampshire
> An excellent op ed piece by Gloria Steinem in today's Times.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html
>
> I remember presidential campaigns going back to 1952. That year Eisenhower
> ran as an agent for change. Kennedy did in 1960, Nixon in 1968, Reagan in
> 1980 ("it's morning in America"), Clinton in 1992, Bush in 1998. A mixed
> record, even for the sorry lot that US presidents have been for the most
> part. Hillary's point is that rhetoric is fine, but caveat emptor. It's
> the nuts and bolts, what she calls prose, that gets the work done. She
> could also have said what no politician is likely to say, that change will
> be limited and incremental no matter who is president, because the
> constitution is a very sad old horse, and there's no practical ways to
> change ponies.
>
> Mark
>
> At 04:28 PM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
>>grim reading:
>>
>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/story/0,,2237363,00.html
>>
>>
>>On Jan 7, 2008 11:17 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Just encountered this formulation:
>> >
>> >
>> > At a raucous rally in a high school gymnasium in Nashua, Clinton
>> > skewered
>> > Obama for several votes he has cast in the Senate, such as his vote in
>> > favor of the Patriot Act and for energy legislation she described as
>> > "Dick
>> > Cheney's energy bill." She never mentioned Obama's name but left no
>> > doubt
>> > about whom she was discussing.
>> >
>> > "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton said.
>> >
>> >
>> > Barry Alpert
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
>>"She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
>>She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
>>The Go-Betweens
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