‘The bells of Christ Church ringing peals of rejoicing for an infidel president!’ Or there has to be a bastard hiding somewhere!
A wise person once said (me not E) that ‘Bipartisanship was a land located between Oz and Neverland’. Boy was I right! Some of my fellow country men and women, and some fellow Conclub members, somehow believe that at sometime, somewhere politicians conducted themselves in a civil manner. That they offered in a genuine way to reach out and discuss only the ‘issues’. I guess maybe somewhere over the rainbow it happened once possibly. I challenge them to find a single case where that happened here in the real world.
Imagine that in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, President George W. Bush was directing the government to arrest, convict, and imprison his critics. Imagine that John Kerry was paying a scandalmonger to dig up dirt on Tom DeLay. Imagine further that John McCain was working secretly against Bush’s re-election, that DeLay was plotting to replace Bush with Dick Cheney as president, and that John Edwards was conspiring to be elected president instead of Kerry.
Unimaginable, surely. But 204 years earlier in the presidential election of 1800, that’s roughly what took place. The perpetrators were the statesmen who now are virtually deified as the Founding Fathers. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and just about everyone else on the political scene were performing in a dastardly manner that Bush, Kerry, Cheney et al. would never have contemplated two centuries later.
Thats a fun link to read.
E the Wise
October 7, 2008 at 8:17 pm