What we've seen is the most partisan administration that I remember - and I've been voting sinve 1976. Long enough to see real bi-partisanship:
Democrat Zell Miller at Republican Convention A MUST SEE!!!!!!!!
This is Zell Miller, Denocrat Governor and Senator from Georgia, at the 2004 Republican convention. It's long, but the part from 1:50 - 5:50 still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. And the part from 7:00 to 8:00 is as fresh today (about Afghanistan) as it was then.
And the bit at 10:50 speaks volumes about candidate Obama's rhetoric compared to his actions.
Twenty years of votes can tell you much more about a man than twenty weeks of campaign rhetoric. Campaign talk tells you what you want people to think you are; how you vote tells you what you really are ...Zell is an Old School Democrat, as am I. You can hear this clearly at around 13:30. It has an anachronistic feel to it - like a fussy older gentleman who insists on wearing bow ties. You know that the world - or the Party - has moved on, leaving him (and me) behind.
He is not a slick talker, but he is a straight shooter, and where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words ... Right now the world cannot afford an indecisive America. Faint hearted self-indulgence will put at risk all we hold dear in this world.Of course, the
Matthews tried gamely, even for as disappointing a candidate as John Kerry. No thrill running up his leg back then. Now with Obama it's a whole different game. Post partisan means submission. The Media has become an arm of the Democratic congressional Whips, used to enforce party discipline. No more Zells will be tolerated.
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Quite a few years ago I read Zell's book, "A National Party No More".
Awesome.
I wrote him a letter & told him he should run for prez, & he'd get this NH Conservative voting for him in a flash.
He actually wrote back (not a form letter), thanking me for the support, & relating how he'd like to spend the rest of his days relaxing w/family.
They don't make them like that any more...
They don't make them like that any more...
I hope like all hell that they do.
Jim
Ahhh, good ol' Zell. I saw his speech at the 04 Pachyderms' Convention. I cheered. Good old-fashioned political preachifyin', of a kind we just don't see enough of n'more. Pure distilled, undiluted inspiration.
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