[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
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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