Subject: former Democrat writes
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 02:40:44 GMT
I should never have introduced the idea of 'moral
considerations'. They have little part to play in affairs
of the state & what I had in mind was not so much
W.'s moral grandeur but rather his predecessor's
personal squalor. As well as that, the phrase does
seem to induce extreme posturings - rather as certain
chemicals do through their action on the basal nuclei.
In linking Bush with Nixon I get the feeling John
is exercised more by the evil of Republicans in
general than of one in particular.
John, I feel your pain.
How vividly do I still remember my own snarling rage
at Helen Douglas's fate, my unappeased scorn as that
loathsome, jowelly face sweated under David Frost's
implacable grilling. What fury induced by the pharisaical
pronouncements of the Dulles brothers. From bumbling
Hoover to ineffably bland (but, Jesus, endlessly cunning)
Ike, how impatient were we to see them all - to a man -
burn in everlasting Hell.
But also your joy.
How good it was in that prairie dawn to feel oneself
marching in the company of saints. There they were,
all the Happy Warriors: FDR with his jaunty cigarette
holder; Eleanor on yet another of her squawking, toothy
crusades; doomed, witty Adlai; &, of course, (how does
the song go?) Martin & Bobby & John. ... Not to mention
the Man from Hope.
Ringo is quite right, too - how wonderfully free we
all felt of bourgeois taint. Old money & ex slaves:
the true aristocracy of America. What I found most
distressing after my later conversion - apart from
the dreadful atmosphere of arsenical exhaust gases -
was the ambient tone of grocers & golfers. No more
intelligent conversation, no more reminiscences of
the International Brigade, no more drinky-poos
with the chic-lets in Lenny's apartment. All gone.
Ah well. At least one retains one's own intellectual
rigour. A quality confined, Sean, almost exclusively
to short, elderly Scotsmen with razor brains & gimlet
eyes, born & raised on the left bank of the Tay.
Scottie B.
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