Friday was an astonishing news day -- it started with the Supreme Court rewriting the map of "states where gay marriage is legal." And then midday, while we were all still euphoric over that, President Obama gave his eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church and a South Carolina state Senator, who was murdered last week, along with eight of his parishioners: Tywanza Sanders, Susie Jackson, Cynthia Hurd, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Ethel Lee Lance, Myra Thompson, and Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, Sr.
I think the only time I like it is when it's played on the bagpipes (note: it's also the only time I like bagpipes). There's just something...haunting about it that way.
Of course, anytime it's done up-tempo (as a song of joy) is a little more welcome than a dirge.
Dok, I appreciate hyperbole as much as the next Wonker, but really, Churchill, De Gaulle, all three Roosevelts, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and certainly Washington, in which he forgoes a third term AND warns of foreign entanglements, are at least equal to this. Which was a little too churchy for my taste, frankly.
(met this dude in 2006 somewhere at a wine and cheese thingee in a 606 zip code. still willing to go to the mat for him. and no one has yet convinced me otherwise...).
Still the best presidential address ever delivered and he was still working on it on his way to Gettysburg. When you visit there, armed with the history you get a claustrophobic sense of the "last full measure of devotion." We can only hope that we will never have to call on our youth again to make that "last full measure..." To honor Lincoln and the soldiers on both sides we need to do our best to not ever engage in nationalistic/jingoistic language of blood-lust and perversion.
Yeah, he's been planting a watermelon patch on the White (sic) House lawn!
I think the only time I like it is when it's played on the bagpipes (note: it's also the only time I like bagpipes). There's just something...haunting about it that way.
Of course, anytime it's done up-tempo (as a song of joy) is a little more welcome than a dirge.
https://youtu.be/EsLsr-ftP6E
yes. let him be your president.
speaking at the other end of your time arc: he has been an extraordinary president.
Dok, I appreciate hyperbole as much as the next Wonker, but really, Churchill, De Gaulle, all three Roosevelts, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and certainly Washington, in which he forgoes a third term AND warns of foreign entanglements, are at least equal to this. Which was a little too churchy for my taste, frankly.
that's my boy.
(met this dude in 2006 somewhere at a wine and cheese thingee in a 606 zip code. still willing to go to the mat for him. and no one has yet convinced me otherwise...).
"It was ... Schwartz. Yeah, Schwartz -- that's who I heard it from."
Anoraks.
Forrest should have been hanged for war crimes in 1865 (Ft. Pillow Massacre).
Yeah, that's fairly much what my impulse would be. But I don't know if I could help mysel.
Still the best presidential address ever delivered and he was still working on it on his way to Gettysburg. When you visit there, armed with the history you get a claustrophobic sense of the "last full measure of devotion." We can only hope that we will never have to call on our youth again to make that "last full measure..." To honor Lincoln and the soldiers on both sides we need to do our best to not ever engage in nationalistic/jingoistic language of blood-lust and perversion.
Now the man I voted for has returned! God Bless these United States of America and our President!
I will second that! !
I sobbed when I watched that on Friday. And then thought that the whole week was a shiv to the wingassers and this was twisting it real hard.
Speaking of which, do we really know whether he bats left- or right-handed?
Yeah, but when B. Hussein O. says "God", you know he means Allah !
My grandma was a church organist AND named Grace.