On 1/30/03 11:51 AM, "Gary Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently Natalie Johnson-Lee heard a different State of the Union speech > than the rest of the country did, as evidenced by the numerous mistakes she > made in what Bush actually said versus the rhetoric and straw-grabbing she > asserts. > > If this speech indeed represents all Greens, then this speech only goes to > show how far to the extreme left the Greens sit. > > Since war was the main topic of the Johnson-Lee speech, perhaps she would be > interested in knowing around 2/3's of Americans support military action. > Are you sure America's not calling, Natalie? Gary and others might be interested in knowing that as tremendous a public speaker as Natalie Johnson-Lee is, she still had to prepare her speech in advance of Bush's State of the Union address and anticipate what he was going to say. I just read her speech again and I thought she did a darn good job of anticipating what Bush would say and did an even better job of responding to it. And unlike Bush's speech, which had a main topic of war, the main topic of Natalie's speech was peace and how she has heard from her constituents and colleagues that they want peace, not war. Her message was about justice for working Americans, for minorities, for the elderly and children and for immigrants. Read it again: http://www.greenpartyus.org/press/stateofunion_01_28_03.html Now - think about it. Who among us wants war? Do you want war? Does anyone in your family want war? Does your neighbor or your co-worker want war? I don't personally know anybody who wants war. Gary said that 2/3 of Americans support military action. Where are they? Who are they? If this war does indeed happen, it won't be fought in my name and I don't think it will be fought in many of yours. I commend Natalie Johnson-Lee for doing such a wonderful job of not only representing the Green Party, but Minneapolis so well. We should all be proud of her right now. Mark Snyder Windom Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
