[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:02:31 -0400
Apologies re post on Carter. I sent it before I read Andy's.
Veronica
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:41 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday
Carter's debacle presidency? He was the president who saw things the
way they really were, that we needed to reduce energy use for example. The
perception of debacle is that people don't want to know things the way they
really are. They prefer Morning in America, i.e., spend and use it up as fast
as possible. Ultimately that became Mourning in America, yet people still
think Reagan's was a good presidency.
Reagan unleashed the genie of debt, not Carter. Reagan's was the
debacle presidency, not Carter's. Yet because Reagan talked everyone into a
warm fuzzy fantasy and Carter told it like it is, Carter gets the debacle
stamp. Emotions rule...
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 5:32 AM
Points taken (although, who needs TV when there's the internet?).
I too, have not experienced any real President during my lifetime.
But that does not convince me that the individual in office is irrelevant to
the direction of the country.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> He too, Eric, feels as though the rep's and dem's are simply two
pieces of the same party and that it really doesn't matter who is President. I
understand that, coming from him, because he is rather highly
cynical in nature -- but it doesn' t seem as natural coming from
Eric.
I haven't had TV for several months and have been insulated from
the images of agitprop. So it could be that.
On the other hand, we haven't had an real President during my
lifetime, so it's hard to get worked up over a silver-tongued, slickster
machine-politico whose major appeal is the iconic realization of racial
progress and whose shortcomings have yet to be exposed. I recall Carter coming
out of nowhere as the shiny new thing and also recall his debacle presidency.
Yet I am prepared to be pleasantly surprised. A surprise would be
fine indeed. Maybe "the People" will be friendly?
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