[lbo-talk] A letter to America: you cannot be serious

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Mon Sep 15 15:47:51 PDT 2008


this was posted at another list. I got a chuckle out of this bit:

editorial by Ian Bell:
>http://www.sundayherald.com/misc/print.php?artid=2446103
...
>Too close to call. America, that is almost beyond words. I have neither a
>personal nor a partisan interest. Ms Palin and Mr Obama alike are foreign
>to me. Yet if Mr Bush has been a dangerous absurdity, what is the latest
>Republican president-but-one? Since I'm asking the questions, I'll answer.
>
>Ms Palin is a symbol of deep American introversion, of the fact that you
>have ceased to take yourselves seriously and, more important, don't much
>care who knows it. Arguments over the relationship between the wider world
>and your choices have become irrelevant. You have detached yourself,
>finally, from the global community. This is isolationism as never before
>conceived. "American" in my life has been lingua franca, for better or
>ill. Now you talk to yourself.

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