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From: "Peter D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet]RE:Tim de Mello on Polarisation and the Economy Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:55:01 -0500
Tim de Mello writes:
"Peter D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"Tim, we're really hoping that Barbra Streisand, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon et al would make good on their threats, from four years ago, to emigrate to Europe."
Those of you who seem to relish in the concept of a polarized country would do well to recall the words of Lincoln: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
You're right, Tim. Most of us actually want folks like Streisand, Robbins, Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg et al to learn that they're seriously dislocated from the mainstream culture. Nobody relishes the idea of a polarised country, all of us want (and sometimes expect) the rest to think just like us. (BTW, the quote is from Jesus, Lincoln might have borrowed it. Matthew 12:25)
Yes, Abe borrowed it from Mathew though very appropriately at the time when the issue
of slavery threatened to split the nascent American nation as never before or since.
He quoted it in his address to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, Illinois, (June 16, 1896)
It features in his speech quoted within inverted comas.
Alfred de Tavares, an unpresumed candidate for Biblical scholarship and lincolnian lore.
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