[lit-ideas] Re: A Whiter Shade of Pale
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 23:29:03 -0500
Unrelated, really, but I had just sent an e-mail to a friend
describing McCain's speech as a whiter shade of gray when I saw this.
Julie Krueger
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My son and I were talking about the Republican convention. He said that
> he'd read somewhere that 58 percent of whites in America vote Republican.
> It depressed him greatly. I told him to get over it. Before he dies of old
> age whites will be a minority riding at the back of the bus. That cheered
> him, but he kept going on about all the corpulent white men at the
> convention who all looked clone-like. He's young -- well, 32 -- but that's
> young when it comes to tolerating your enemies.
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> He was dismissive of Sarah Palin. I told him that I think she has a great
> career ahead of her as an inspirational speaker. America needs people who
> can rouse insouciant employees to give their all to management programs that
> co-opt their grievances.
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> If you were raised in a political family, you absolutely love all this high
> drama. The fate of the universe depends on it. Politics is the purest
> of religions. "Wherever two or more of you are gathered together, there is
> politics." Jesus said that. It's writ down somewhere. I can't remember
> where. God, of course, has spoken to most of us, so we know how to vote --
> there's no flirting with 'independent' apostasy.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
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