“Power concedes nothing without a demand.”
-Frederick Douglass
This is a ramble.
I wanted to put in the Youtube video of the infomercial, here. There’s a moment, in the first part, when Obama is listening to a guy who had his pension sliced (are you listening, Pennsy?). Obama says “You earned your pension…” And the guy is just flabbergasted, and can only say, over and over, “Thank you.”
But instead, this might be the most smile inducing clip of the campaign, for me.
This says plenty.
Here’s the Scoreboard.
and some art. I always liked the Poster for the 1924 Olympics, learned from Chariots of Fire.
And, on the subject of Chariots of Fire, and keeping up the fight.
Bring me my Bow of burning gold;
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold:
Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand,
Till we have built Jerusalem,
In England’s green & pleasant Land.
Pennsylvania, I’m looking at you. You gave up your first chance at greatness dragging your feet and letting Delaware sign the Constitution first.
Don’t let it happen, again. Let us unite the Commonwealths.
Kentucky will have to sit it out.
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