Morning in America
Mar. 22nd, 2010 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogOn this monumental occasion of political victory over special interests and stupidity, I am so incredibly moved, I can only offer a quote from one of the guiding lights of my party through these difficult but triumphant times.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Honorable Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska, speaking about another controversial and ridiculed investment by America in its people and its future, by Alaska purchaser (and upstate New York native) William Seward:
Critics ridiculed Seward for spending so much on a remote chunk of earth that some thought of as just a frozen, inhospitable wilderness that was dark half the year. The $7.2 million purchase became known as “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox.” Seward withstood the mocking and disdain because of his vision for Alaska. He knew her potential to help secure the nation with her resources and strategic position on the globe. . . . [D]ecades later, he was posthumously vindicated, as purveyors of unpopular common sense often are.
Preach it! And now, you can see health care from your house!
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Honorable Sarah Palin of Wasilla, Alaska, speaking about another controversial and ridiculed investment by America in its people and its future, by Alaska purchaser (and upstate New York native) William Seward:
Critics ridiculed Seward for spending so much on a remote chunk of earth that some thought of as just a frozen, inhospitable wilderness that was dark half the year. The $7.2 million purchase became known as “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox.” Seward withstood the mocking and disdain because of his vision for Alaska. He knew her potential to help secure the nation with her resources and strategic position on the globe. . . . [D]ecades later, he was posthumously vindicated, as purveyors of unpopular common sense often are.
Preach it! And now, you can see health care from your house!
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Date: 2010-03-22 12:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 12:32 pm (UTC)Ah, well. More evidence in the argument for revoking her PTA card, I suppose.
(And you know, they were right when they said that health-care reform would be Obama's Waterloo. They just forgot to mention the bit about Obama taking the role of Arthur Wellesley. It was a near-run thing, though...)
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Date: 2010-03-22 12:37 pm (UTC)And I'm sure she had no idea the allusion could be used as a parallel to the health care issue, but the peeps on that side generally don't see how previous events have any bearing on what their arguments are NOW.
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Date: 2010-03-22 12:43 pm (UTC)Three points, nothing but net.
And I'm sure she had no idea the allusion could be used as a parallel to the health care issue, but the peeps on that side generally don't see how previous events have any bearing on what their arguments are NOW.
Except in those cases where they try to actively alter the past to fit their arguments in the present. But that's like throwing a rock in a lake and then claiming you haven't; the waves from the splash are still spreading, and there's still a rock at the bottom of the lake...
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Date: 2010-03-22 01:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 02:00 pm (UTC)