Thinking about the past couple weeks of this presidential campaign and the places that it has denigrated to, at least on the Republican side of things, just really really reminded me of this old speech from way back in 1995:
The transcript and a few thought are below the fold... The parallels are starkly apparent; enough to make one wonder what Aaron Sorkin is thinking right now...
Watching this speech makes me want to send the McCain campaign a video of The American President just to illustrate the irony.
Of course, I must assume that they are already aware of just how low they have descended into gutter politics, so I won’t waste the money.
And on the off chance that they are not consciously aware of the blatant parallels between their campaign and Bob Rumson’s campaign in this movie, I’d rather them stay that ignorant.
Anyway, the speech is good enough to be listed on American Rhetoric, which is a database of great ...
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Speculators Pushing Up Food Prices?From: EENRBlog.com
Post Date: 2008-05-31 16:09:11
My email box this morning bristled with an inordinate amount of messages from various food agencies but the one that I opened up straight away came from the FAO, with a link to their latest pdf prepared & published for next week’s high level conference on world food security in Rome. "Speculators outside of the food industry pouring money into financial mechanisms in the commodity markets could be cause for concern"
In a far-reaching report on global food prices , the UN questions...
more Societal MurderFrom: EENRBlog.com
Post Date: 2008-05-31 13:12:20
Last night, as I sat at my computer, an unholy stench came into the house and offended my olfactory nerves. It smelt of sewage, and something worse, but it seemed to come from outside. We have skunks in the neighborhood, and raccoons, so I assumed one of them had died or otherwise made some kind of mess. As it turns out. it was something far worse, and profoundly sad.
This morning I learned that Ernie, the crazy hermit who lived across the street, died some time between We...
more McClellan, Writing and TruthFrom: EENRBlog.com
Post Date: 2008-05-29 18:11:12
Is this a Judas move? So asks Bill O’Reilly:
Milder reactions have emanated from the White House, ranging from being "puzzled", intimating that McClellan didn’t write this book because it "doesn’t sound like him, it sounds like a left-wing blogger", that this is an "out of body experience", that McClellan was "disgruntled", that "something dramatically has changed", that the editor "tweaked some things in the past few months" and "wrote a lot of it"...
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