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Posted by caraher on August 8, 2007, at 10:33:01
My favorite Republican candidate:
Don't miss her debate performance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ckT_9Detal4
"I believe America is the greatest country in the United States"
Posted by Sigismund on August 10, 2007, at 18:04:28
In reply to because America gets what it deserves, posted by caraher on August 8, 2007, at 10:33:01
Maybe countries get what they deserve?
I think we deserve our government, though I hesitate to say the same for yours.
On reflection, I think it is quite important that Bush was reelected.
There's still 30% who need convincing.
The trouble is that it's all moving targets.
By the time that lesson is learned we'll be off to something else.Here's our Foreign Minister
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhpBU42U7uc
Posted by Sigismund on August 11, 2007, at 19:15:28
In reply to because America gets what it deserves, posted by caraher on August 8, 2007, at 10:33:01
When Richard Flannagan was talking about the moral squalor of the last decade, he made a point of saying that it was a broader issue than this or that awful government. He mentioned in particular a withdrawal of generosity and magnanimity.
(Do we even remember what that word means? Maybe Churchill was the last one to use it?)
In the USA you have allowed centuries old freedoms to be eroded in the face of (at least) real threat. We don't even have that excuse. Not really.
Maybe we're quite frivolous?
Posted by caraher on August 14, 2007, at 11:46:40
In reply to Re: because America gets what it deserves » caraher, posted by Sigismund on August 10, 2007, at 18:04:28
That guy reminds me of our attorney general.
The sad part is that even if we do indeed get what we deserve, the trouble is that it affects so many other people in the world.
Posted by Sigismund on August 14, 2007, at 14:30:06
In reply to Re: because America gets what it deserves, posted by caraher on August 14, 2007, at 11:46:40
Your Attorney General may be more challenging, but ours is more entertaining.
He is particularly keen on suggesting that members of the opposition have their mouths washed out with soap.
These references to quaint Victorian child rearing practices have tinged our embarrassment with amusement.
Posted by Sigismund on August 14, 2007, at 16:04:32
In reply to Look on the bright side » caraher, posted by Sigismund on August 14, 2007, at 14:30:06
In 1992, the PM of Australia, Paul Keating said this in his Redfern Speech....
'And, as I say, the starting point might be to recognise that the problem starts with us non-Aboriginal Australians.
It begins, I think, with the act of recognition. Recognition that it was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion.
It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us. With some noble exceptions, we failed to make the most basic human response and enter into their hearts and minds. We failed to ask - how would I feel if this were done to me?
As a consequence, we failed to see that what we were doing degraded all of us.'It really is worth a read. Once, not often but sometimes, we have been blessed with a leadership deserving of respect.
Here is a link for the full text....
Posted by fayeroe on August 23, 2007, at 21:30:37
In reply to Look on the bright side » caraher, posted by Sigismund on August 14, 2007, at 14:30:06
"Your Attorney General may be more challenging, but ours is more entertaining."
I'd like to change your sentence to read "more challenged".......thank you, sir..........p
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