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Posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:02:08
This is most of the last paragraph of an essay on the Obama win by Don Watson (Paul Keating's speechwriter)....
>It might have signaled the end of the Vietnam war, and not just for John McCain. Those people for whom Vietnam created an oedipal crisis that only Ronald Reagan could solve are now going grunting into retirement or jail; or, like George W Bush to some barren corner of the country where they can commune with God and ghost their memoirs. The game is over. Their enemies, the baby-booming liberals, might crow for awhile, but they must know their days are darkening too. Of all the pleasurable sensations Obama's victory and glorious victory speech provoked - the blind will no longer lead the blind, sentences will be whole again and truth will reign in them (.....) - this was the best: we don't have to listen to the sounds of our own generation any more.
How cool is that?
Posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:16:33
In reply to Obama, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:02:08
At the beginning of the article he quotes Walt Whitman:
Election Day, 1884If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:
This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day.
Posted by fayeroe on December 12, 2008, at 21:59:40
In reply to Obama, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:02:08
You are just rocking and rolling today here on the board! :-) I'm loving it!
Posted by fayeroe on December 12, 2008, at 22:13:13
In reply to Re: Obama, posted by Sigismund on December 12, 2008, at 20:16:33
> At the beginning of the article he quotes Walt Whitman:
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> Election Day, 1884
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> If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,
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> 'Twould not be you, Niagara - nor you, ye limitless prairies - nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado,
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> Nor you, Yosemite - nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing,
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> Nor Oregon's white cones - nor Huron's belt of mighty lakes - nor Mississippi's stream:
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> This seething hemisphere's humanity, as now, I'd name - the still small voice vibrating -America's choosing day.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thank you!
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