[Rhodes22-list] Bill Effros must have bought stock in hip boot making company...

[Brad Haslett]

Ed,

We disagree. Bill posted the speeches for my benefit (and anyone else who
chooses to read them). If I'm listening to a sermon and the preacher with a
passion shouts, "God Damn America!", I won't waste anymore of my time and
will quietly leave the church.  I've read 'Das Capitals' not because I think
its interesting reading or a useful blueprint for governance, but for
enlightenment on what all the fuss is about. Bill didn't present the
material as a gospel, just interesting reading.  I'll read it and digest
it.  Bill Clinton, "the former first black president", was able to relate to
blacks in a way no other whitey could - that's worthy of study.  Farrakan
sounds a lot like Malcolm X to me.  Malcolm had a message of
self-responsibility that has somehow gotten lost in all the static about
race.  Barry (that was his self-chosen 'white' name) Obama is a user of the
race issue at the lowest level.  Re-reading his speech is worthwhile just as
a reminder of why I loathe the man so much.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

Bill was my friend long before this joint venture.

Brad

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:

>
> Bill recently posted text from three speeches.  Instead of summarizing the
> essence of what the speakers were saying, he dumped much verbal shit on the
> proposed readers.  I have no problem with posting one well written article
> on this forum, but to make a dump of that style is wrong and useless.
>
> Speeches can help us understand and learn.  Real Americans look to Lincoln
> at Gettysburg on how it should be done.
>
> If you cannot make your point in 260 words, then maybe the purpose of the
> speech is really nefarious and should be treated as such.
>
> Read this speech:
>
> ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE DEDICATION OF THE CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG
> The number of words in each sentence is indicated in [brackets] at the end
> of the sentence.
> Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this Continent,
> a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that
> all men are created equal. [30]
>
> Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or
> any
> nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. [24] We are met on a
> great battle-field of that war. [10] We have come to dedicate a portion of
> that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
> that that nation might live. [27] It is altogether fitting and proper that
> we should do this. [11]
>
> But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate--we can not consecrate--we can
> not hallow--this ground. [19] The brave men, living and dead, who struggled
> here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. [21]
> The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can
> never forget what they did here. [21] It is for us the living, rather, to
> be
> dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus
> far so nobly advanced. [26] It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
> great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take
> increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure
> of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
> died
> in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
> freedom--and
> that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not
> perish from the earth. [81]
> ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
> November 19, 1863.
>
> People can read and understand.  It is not the Communists Big Lie.
>
> Ed k
> Greenville, SC, USA
>
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