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...It was soon after I had started “On Faith” and I wanted to see what it was like...
...In both those cases, the Democratic candidates were attacked by unfair and untrue charges but failed to respond and lost the election...
...That they are a severe source of pollution and with five barges off of Malibu can you imagine how this also affects the life in our ocean when the poisons trickle down...
...But they were all there, eager to talk to me, most of them with poems in their hands...
...With eyesight, you may see misery...
...July 10, 2008) washingtonPost.com A Roman Catholic mass for recently deceased Tim Russert prompts Miss Sally Quinn, in her Post column on religion, to demonstrate the indispensable value of neurosis if one is to truly experience her spiritual breakthrough, to wit, gourmet grace...
...But ultimately we must judge people by their values and their contribution...
...May 13, 2008) cQ Politics (Congressional Quarterly’s online blog) An agelastic cartoonist fashions satire for the New Yorker’s cover, joshing about the Prophet Obama and his comely wife Boethia...
...It would be another matter altogether if the cartoon were on the cover of The American Spectator...
...Bill Moyers defends fellow preacher Rev...
...After I began “On Faith,” Tim started calling me “Sister Sal” instead of “Miss Sal...
...I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse...
...The United States of America has used over 1500 tons of depleted uranium in Iraq because DU is dirt cheap...
...Three trillion dollars is what they say this war will cost in Iraq (known as the “Cradle of Civilization”) but the true cost in life and suffering is truly immeasurable...
...But just because you were born in the slum does not mean that the slum was born in you...
...They may have done wrong, but we do greater wrong when we take away their ability to live, to contribute, to be fully human...
...July 16, 2008) Good Morning america ABC’s latter-day Walter Cronkite, George Stephanopoulos, explains the sad reasons that the Democratic Party failed to land two more dinkelspiels in the White House: The important point the Obama campaign wants to make is that whenever an unfair charge or an untrue charge is leveled, they’re going to respond...
...His whole career was being summed up in soundbites that added up to no more than 20 seconds, endlessly played through the media grinder of our national press...
...Don’t leave anybody out...
...Oddly I had a slightly nauseated sensation after I took it, knowing that in some way it represented the body and blood of Jesus Christ...
...In a maximum-security unit of the San Diego juvenile court system, I met with a number of young men who had been convicted as adults, including some who had received life without the possibility of parole...
...They were not, nor can they be seen as the 80 THe aMeRIcan sPecTaToR sePTeMbeR 2008 cuRRenT wIsdoM target of contempt or unfair criticism or any malicious misrepresentation...
...es macabre support for all of us who (June 19, 2008) from the archives Timeless Tosh from current wisdoms Past (from “Jesse Jabber,” a special current wisdom devoted to the oratory of the Rev...
...And what is the consequence...
...Of course when I mentioned my concerns to my sister, she said, “Oh Valerie, fireworks are America...
...The most important reason Gore (June 11, 2008) should be Vice President is that he’s suffered and learned...
...Gore boring: Is there any humanity in either of these guys...
...July 2008) Malibu Times On the correspondence page of a Times for the 21st century, one Valerie Sklarevsky unburdens herself just weeks before leaving for the Democratic National Convention and certain fame: I can’t be the only one who becomes distressed each Fourth of July when the fireworks start...
...They’re going to hit back hard...
...June 23, 2008) The daily show Appearing appropriately enough on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Rev...
...A rude fellow from the Congressional Quarterly drags in this urbane journal of light-hearted drollery for unfair condemnation: I don’t think the Obamas have any reason to take personal offense...
...With a made-up mind, which is the most powerful instrument in the world, you can rise above your circumstances...
...They are human beings...
...You must develop your mind to protect your behind, your body, and your soul....It’s not my aptitude but my attitude that determines my altitude, with a little intestinal fortitude...
...Jeremiah Wright, after Wright became the victim of one of the dirtiest political tricks of all, defaming a man by quoting him: He was assassinated by soundbites...
...Last Wednesday I was determined to take it for Tim, transubstantiation notwithstanding...
...That’s what we should be aiming for...
...No mountain is too high, and no valley is too low...
...It’s hard to imagine what might be going through their heads...
...Poems...
...The color “chrome” fits in the rainbow...
...Incidentally, Sally has never been institutionalized: Last Wednesday at Tim’s funeral mass at Trinity Church in Georgetown (Jack Kennedy’s church), communion was offered...
...We would have some clear sense in which we might agree that it “crossed the line” inasmuch as this sort of thing coming from opposition headquarters would transgress the bounds of fair criticism in its blend of minimal facts and deliberately concocted falsehoods...
...Young people...
...And it was worth it just to imagine how he would have loved it...
...They’re colored by the experience of the Michael Dukakis campaign in 1988 and of John Kerry’s campaign in 2004...
...And all they really want to do is have adjudged the marmoreal Al somehow kiss up to the oil people...
...no forest is too dense, and no water is too deep— if your mind is made up...
...The disabled have their handicap revealed and their genius concealed, while the able-bodied have their genius revealed and their disability concealed...
...For those who pack up care packages for our soldiers will you be there for them when they come home sick and denied care by the very government which never warned them of the dangers they were facing...
...July 12, 1984) An American Whitman sings out: Finally, I want you to know that there’s nothing more dangerous than to be trapped with a shrinking mind and an expanded behind...
...But with insight, you can see the brighter side...
...Jesse Jackson, september 1988) Still more numinous rumble bumble from the Rev...
...It made me feel closer to him...
...It is just hard for me to sit back and enjoy fireworks because so many other thoughts go through my mind...
...Did you realize that fireworks are made of poisonous metals, oxidizers, fuels, barium and perchlorate and other toxins...
...From remarks delivered to the “What’s Happening” Teen Conference of 1978) sePTeMbeR 2008 THe aMeRIcan sPecTaToR 81...
...I’m so glad I did...
...He has the tem bloomberg.com perament some of us reach on our Columnist Margaret Carlson adduc-death beds...
...as he wows the clinically insane at the 1984 Democratic convention: Jesus was rejected from the inn and born in the slum...
...And the same is true of George Bush...
...I don’t mean that to be like a smart ass, but he seems like he might be a goon….My feeling about Cheney—and also Bush, but especially Cheney—is that he just couldn’t care less about Americans...
...We live in a culture of denial and what our country is doing is really a crime against humanity...
...June 13, 2008) late show with david letterman A shocking anti-goon diatribe from David Letterman, during an otherwise politically correct interview with former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who appeared in long pants: Is Cheney a goon...
...Then I thought about America’s war in Iraq and the fact that bombs have been going off for years there...
...I had only taken communion once in my life, at an evangelical church...
...As long as someone has poetry in them, there’s great potential for transformation and transcendence...
...He was angry about that...
...July 17, 1984) Exhortatory vibrations from the most eminent mucous membrane to address the 1984 convention: The Rainbow includes disabled Americans...
...cuRRenT wIsdoM The Progressive Sounding timeless loony left lilts, the melodious Luis J. Rodriguez returns from the raptures of a hoosegow, with more evidence of the criminal dangers of bad poetry: I often talk to juvenile offenders in detention centers across the country, including those slated for adult prisons...
Vol. 41 • September 2008 • No. 7
