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11/3/04 - Tattered Hopes & Dreams

Some days are better than others. This was one morning I didn't want to get up. Nevertheless, we -- and the nation -- will all go on. It is a tribute to the strength of our democracy.


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bonnici03-Feb-2005 10:38
"Just Another Band From LA" is circa 1974 with Flo and Eddie from the Turtles. It is a must have.
Dennis Steinauer22-Jan-2005 07:42
What a hoot! I had a neighbor with a Studebaker Hawk, so I didn't miss the allusion. However, even though I'm a baby boomer, I didn't know of the Frank Zappa album. Was that before (or after) the Mothers of Invention and Brown Shoes Don't Make It? :)
bonnici22-Jan-2005 07:28
http://www.pbase.com/studebakerhawk/stupidity

Superhawk....that is good.....

Studebaker Hawk.... check the link
Dennis Steinauer20-Jan-2005 14:34
I agree -- just as long as one doesn't start believing he/she *is* (or represents the will of) God, much less that a political majority, however miniscule, represents either a mandate or God's will. Ah, well, this, too, shall pass.

Thanks for the comment.

p.s. At first I thought your screen name was "superhawk" -- maybe I'm getting paranoid. :-)
bonnici20-Jan-2005 07:37
Wow, what a hornet's nest this image has provoked. Isnt that what 'art' is supposed to do? Should it make us think/feel? Are we thinking about how lucky we are to be able to have this kind of dialog without fear of Governmental retribution?

Without bringing political party dogma into this, I am reminded of the movie "Bruce Almighty". Bruce is given the job of God for a few days. Rather than making the hard choices, he grants all prayers....ALL. Everyone won the lotto, the local NHL team won the Stanley Cup.....making the hard choices will never please everyone.

By no stretch of any imagination am I saying being President is as the same as being God, but making tough/unpopular choices will never please everyone, but they have to be made.
Dennis Steinauer03-Nov-2004 23:22
Hey, *now* he has a 'mandate'! Actually, that's what he claimed after losing the popular vote; imagine what he claims now that only 50% of the American people voted against him. Hope it doesn't go to his head.
Carmen03-Nov-2004 23:08
Truly, I don't know which distresses me more: the fact that this man is our president and will continue to be for another four years, or that so many Americans believe in him. Look at all he has done (or not done) so far, while ruling without the benefit of a majority vote, under the shadow of a questionable Supreme Court ruling. What will he not get away with now?
Dennis Steinauer03-Nov-2004 19:57
I guess I just hold on, however tenuously, to the belief in the underlying strength of our system of government and the basic decency of our people (all people, actually). I realize that, given the arrogance, self-righteousness, and venality of our current leaders and the baffling (to me, anyway) foolishness of half our population, this may be an example of hope triumphing over experience. Hey, there's still the other half that is us.
jypsee03-Nov-2004 19:29
I wonder if what you think is true? that we will go on.... that democracy will go on. How is it a democracy when the religious right has such a grip on our politics? We've become a theocracy...
Dennis Steinauer03-Nov-2004 18:46
Howard, probably a wise choice. Hayden in a minor key, huh?
Dennis Steinauer03-Nov-2004 18:39
Jeannie, we need to get you out more. :) (Although many of us may not *want* to get out more, now.) Alas...
Guest 03-Nov-2004 17:27
Ahhh Crap. Just read who won....
Guest 03-Nov-2004 15:09
Just want to add that I've decided to forego the beer. Instead, I'm listening to Joseph Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross, a magnificent work of music. It fits the mood.
Guest 03-Nov-2004 14:57
I'd like to agree with you, but I'm not at all sure our democracy has the strength to survive the kind of blindness, arrogance, stupidity that Shrub's re-election illustrates. When at least half of our citizens reward a man with the highest office who launched an unprovoked war against another country; whose actions have led (according to the latest report) to the death of close to 100,000 INNOCENT (not counting soldiers) men, women and children; who has promised again and again to attack anyone and anything that he thinks/feels is against him/us; who has no awareness that people exist in poverty, with handicaps, with struggles; then I look at that democracy with pessimism, not optimism. I'm afraid we have hard times ahead of us. Sorry about this essay, but I'm so depressed over this election that I can hardly think. I need a beer, and it's only 10 a.m.
Guest 03-Nov-2004 14:39
So who won?
katwilkens03-Nov-2004 13:49
Hear, hear!
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