out of touch with reality and representative of only a
handful of extremists. Not all of them but many of
those that choose to be vocal on politics. This is why
I don�t see Bush�s comment as off the mark.
We all know there�s a lot of spinning going on from
both sides especially this close to the election. It
should be easy to find something clearly spun rather
then something as cloudy as this.
I actually thought there was a whole new side to this
that I missed and that�s why I was asking.
-sm
--- Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think so. Tom Metzger reading MLK's "I Have
> a Dream" speech doesn't
> mean he's speaking for MLK or represents him in any
> way.
>
> I think it connotes more a sense that the material
> presented that evening
> conveyed the "heart and soul" of America. (As he
> sees it, of course). The
> main arguments at the time seemed to be that some of
> the performances were
> off-color - but I suppose we must admit that at
> least some of America's
> "Heart and Soul" has to be off-color. I mean at
> least one aspect of
> "America" has to be that even a no-talent
> media-whore like Whoopie Goldberg
> can makes headlines two days in a row.
>
> It could also have nothing to with the actual
> content of the performances,
> but rather with the overall emotive factor. Did the
> performances, the
> music, the lyrics evoke patriotic thoughts? Did it
> get them fired up to
> take part in the American system of politics? Well
> then maybe that's the
> "heart and soul" that was conveyed.
>
> But in the end that's my complaint about the whole
> thing - a phrase like
> "heart and soul" is just poetic language.
> Personally I doubt it ever could
> be applied to "America" in any significant way.
> Neither Kerry's assertion
> that the entertainer's that evening "conveyed" it or
> Bush's later assertion
> that he could "find" it are at all meaningful.
>
> The whole debate nit-picked at it as if they were
> going to open a drawer in
> Cleveland some day and >poof< out pops the heart and
> soul of America like
> some demented advertising mascot. Like it was
> something that they had a
> hold of, something tangible.
>
> It amused me much more than anything else. like the
> deadly serious debates
> that took place hundreds of years ago about how many
> angels could dance on
> the head of a pin or whether Jesus owned his own
> bowl.
>
> Jim Davis
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