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"Most men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing happened." -- a Winston Churchill quote used by educator-consultant Pamela Gerloff at the start of a 3.23 essay about how really big thoughts and moments, like those contained in Barack Obama's Philadelphia speech last Tuesday, are waved off or attacked by most listeners, for the most banal and petty of reasons.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on March 24, 2008 at 06:35 PM
comment #1
p.Vice ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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Are we sure she wasn't trying to add a little balance to that fluff blazing across the newly minted Hollywood Elsewhere banner?
Posted by p.Vice at March 24, 2008 07:08 PM
Posted by D.Z. at March 24, 2008 08:10 PM
comment #3
christian says ...
This division is more important:
BAGHDAD — A cease-fire critical to the improved security situation in Iraq appeared to unravel Monday when a militia loyal to radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr began shutting down neighborhoods in west Baghdad and issuing demands of the central government.
The same day as McCain says this:
"We are now succeeding in Iraq," the Arizona Senator told a gathering of journalists outside Gordon Brown's official residence at No. 10 Downing Street.
Posted by christian at March 24, 2008 08:16 PM
comment #4
Mgmax says ...
Oh, thank God it's going bad for us!
Posted by Mgmax at March 24, 2008 08:33 PM
comment #5
Gus Petch says ...
Can someone point out a couple of the "big thoughts" or "transformative" ideas from Obama's speech? I've read the speech carefully, and I don't see them. But I know that plenty of smart people see substance in the speech, so I honestly want to know: what is it that people see as new here?
Posted by Gus Petch at March 24, 2008 08:35 PM
comment #6
dangovich says ...
Oh, thank God it's going bad for us!
There was never any doubt it would go bad for us, and that's one of the reasons some of us were opposed to the war from the beginning.
The war is and was a failure at the idea level; not in the prosecution of it, as many are claiming.
Posted by dangovich at March 24, 2008 10:51 PM
comment #7
Caz3773 says ...
Also, how the war is going for "us" (the 1-2 million who've been unlucky enough to spend any significant amount of time there) is pretty insignificant compared to how the war goes for the 27 million people who lived or used to live in a country made even worse than it was under a cruel tyrant by our intervention. Being honest about what has happened to them is more important than showing the proper "go-team" attitude here.
Posted by Caz3773 at March 25, 2008 04:04 AM
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