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10578. Magoseph - 7/27/2004 11:58:48 PM A little bit of it here, Mac.
After retelling his life's story, Obama's 20 minute Clintonesque speech progressed into these words:
" . . . [A]longside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga -- a belief that we are connected as one people.
"If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child.
"If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for her prescription and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandmother.
"If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.
"It's that fundamental belief-I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper-that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family. E pluribus unum -- out of many, one.
"Yet even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.
"Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America-there's the United States of America.
"There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.
"The pundits like to slice-and-dice our country into Red States and Blue States; Red States for Republicans, Blue States for Democrats. But I've got news for them, too.
"We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States.
" We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
10579. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 12:00:45 AM Oh, well, Wabbit, you beat me up to it. That Mac has a way with women in here, doesn't he? 10580. Macnas - 7/28/2004 12:06:47 AM Yes indeed, I do have a way with women, usually called "no way". 10581. wabbit - 7/28/2004 12:24:35 AM What a charmer! 10582. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 12:25:53 AM Oh, Mac, a young man like you, with wife and kids, is wearing a sign that says: No way this guy is going to marry me! 10583. Macnas - 7/28/2004 12:28:59 AM Ha! You misunderstood. I meant that I have no way with women. I always consider it a miracle that I'm married at all. 10584. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 1:05:56 AM Yes, I didn't misunderstand you, Mac. I was just kidding you.
Forgive me. 10585. wabbit - 7/28/2004 1:14:37 AM That modesty only adds to your charm, Mac, you can't fool us! 10586. arkymalarky - 7/28/2004 1:50:59 AM Arky, Keoni came home in an SUV from the rental place. It feels enormous.
Haha! You ought to really be able to stretch your leg out comfortably! Is it a Suburban? People will think you're from Houston. ;-)
Thanks for the offer. I think we're good to go. I'm hoping to pick up some of the same barbecue we had the first year and there should be plenty of everything else. Jean and her two friends are cooking and bringing stuff Friday night, so we're all set for the whole weekend. 10587. Ms. No - 7/28/2004 2:07:23 AM Is Keoni making pies? 10588. judithathome - 7/28/2004 3:54:38 AM No, he's working late tonight and tomorrow night and even bringing his phone with him so he will be in touch with work. No time to prebake pies, unfortunately.
BUT! He IS going to make biscuits Saturday and Sunday morning...that is, if Arky doesn't mind. 10589. judithathome - 7/28/2004 3:55:56 AM Arky, no suburban but something smaller...some sort of Honda thing. Is there one called a Pilot? I think it's just an overgrown Honda.... 10590. Ms. No - 7/28/2004 4:53:08 AM Ooh! Homemade biscuits, yum! 10591. judithathome - 7/28/2004 5:03:27 AM Keoni is indeed the biscuit king. He makes quintessential biscuits.
It was one of the reasons I married him. 10592. arkymalarky - 7/28/2004 5:22:40 AM Oooooh, yes! I don't mind a bit! I think I speak for everyone who'll be there in the morning on that one. 10593. Macnas - 7/28/2004 4:11:45 PM Grey overcast sky, soft rain drifting in lazy waves, every leaf wet and dripping, every root busy sipping. 10594. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 4:52:41 PM Ah, a poet's soul, a lovely mind, a witty and kind man, here is Mac brightening my morning. Good morning!
10595. Macnas - 7/28/2004 6:06:00 PM Good morning Mago.
Steady now, don't mistake my rhyming for poetry.
Thanks for the compliments, 'though I'm not worthy of any of them! 10596. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 9:59:32 PM Do you know how I would have described such a scene, Mac? I would probably have written something like “Cloudy and rainy again, it’s so wet outside, I can’t it...” It would never occur to me to think that the rain might be beneficial to plants or trees. I would never see beauty in a grey sky, nor would I notice the rain drifting in waves.
You did. Next time it rains, I will certainly look around and think.
10597. Magoseph - 7/28/2004 10:31:47 PM Inserting "..it’s so wet outside, I can’t stand it...”
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