Yesterday two more U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq, putting the American military death toll at 841 so far — just five short of 2004's lost lives despite political progress and dogged efforts to quash the insurgency.
I had a dream about Abraham Lincoln last night, and when you compare him to our current, um, leader, you really get the sense that something has been missing in this country for a long time, and it is difficult to say what. Whatever it is, it's probably got lots of syllables; something that Abraham Lincoln would be able to pronouce and understand.
Here's the beginning of a campaign speech he gave in 1860. Try to imagine Bush saying these words. Then set yourself on fire and jump off the empire state building.
Mr. President and fellow citizens of New York: -
The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation.
In his speech last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in "The New-York Times," Senator Douglas said:
"Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now."
I fully endorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas. It simply leaves the inquiry: "What was the understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned?"
Here's the Bush version:
Mr. President and fellow citizens of New York: -
The facts I shall deal with this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inf.. inferences and observations following that presentation.
Freedom will prevail and the terrorists will lose. You shuffle the shuffle.
In his speech last autumn, at Columbus, Ohio, as reported in "The New-York Times," Senator Douglas said:
"Our fathers, when they framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now."
The founding fathers had a vision of freedom for every American. Freedom from evil.
I fully endorse this freedom, and I adopt it as a text for this discourage... discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and an agreed starting point for a discussion between Republicans and that extreme liberal wing of the Democracy headed by Senator Douglas. It simply leaves the inquiry: "What was the understanding those fathers had of the question mentioned?"
Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamn piece of paper.
I am embarrassed every day by this man.
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