Vince,
BE warned....DO NOT get me started on Nixon, Reagan etc.
I am still feeling the after-effects of the Reagan governor years (in my pocketbook
and in my daily life.)
I managed (for years) while Nixon was president, to forget what he lokked like and
ignore that, to the rest of the world, he represented the government of the US.
Rather ostrich-like, I admit, but it made daily life sooooo much easier.
As for Reagan....................................
Darice
Original message attached.
I am amazed that the listmembers who have had such a problem with
generalizations of the American people, and who object to labeling or boxing
others, have not responded to the idea that those of us who live on the West
Coast, especially in California, are not as intellectual as those of us who
reside in the Northeast, and NYC.
That is bullshit, as you know. The East Coast only thinks it is
intellectually above the rest of us. We humor them.
Have you heard of UC Berkeley and the Free Speech movement? Stanford, UCLA
(where AL Gore now teaches a class), and other great colleges and
universities? I attended UCLA where Angela Davis was a teacher and her mentor
Herbert Marcuse taught at UC San Diego. (Davis was fired by then-governor
Reagan becuase she was a member of the Communist Party.)
Don't brag in California too much though. I have just barely forgiven
them for Nixon and Reagan.
I feel (there's that word again) as if I have been "labeled" a bleached
blonde, bubble-headed surfer girl lying in the sun, while the others (more
highly evolved) of the species migrate to the East Coast to offer their
political "advice" to the rest of the world.
In California (and I thought in the US), one of the great freedoms was freedom
of speech. And one of the great joys was discussion and the exchange of
information. The myriad viewpoints of the people who comprise the United
States, with the wealth of different cultures, is our strength.
I am deeeply offended by that statement which has been largely ignored by
those on the list who have been so vocal on other subjects lately.
Darice, remember that everyone else is jealous of you all. I have
searched for the words of one of the greatest philosophers of our
generation, a Californian in fact, who said it best about the West being
best:
Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there
The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California
I wish they all could be California girls
