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September 05, 2008
speech
McCain's speech last night did again tell his POW story. However, I'm disturbed by some youths' blase attitude about his story. This man cannot lift his arms because they were never properly fixed. He has every right to tell his story again and again.
His speech is reminiscent of another war hero, JFK, when it talked about service to one's country. However, US sentiment trends toward "what can the country do for me" or "the country needs to change drastically but don't change my lifestyle" attitude.
Eight years ago, the presidential election was a reactionary event to 9/11 and now this election is also shaping up to be a reactionary event to the last eight years. Can we step forward without making it a reaction to our past?
Posted by azileretsis at September 5, 2008 05:17 PM
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You *might* be able to say that the 2004 election was reactionary to 9/11/2001, but I don't think you can say that the 2000 election was reactionary to 9/11/2001.
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at September 9, 2008 09:26 AM
Yes, the 2000 election was a reaction to Clinton. However, I believe even then, some of us realized the direction we would go with Bush.
My point is that let's look forward for a change rather than backwards.
Posted by: azileretsis at September 9, 2008 03:06 PM
My point was that you said the 2000 election was a reaction to something that happened a year later. That's impossible, unless the voters were taking your advice to heart and looking forward (in time) to change leadership based on what they knew would happen.
I was being pedantic.
Posted by: Nathan at September 9, 2008 03:29 PM
Yes, again, my mistake. I chose not to correct the original mistake since then this conversation becomes moot.
Posted by: azileretsis at September 10, 2008 03:57 PM
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