Posted on 02/01/2002 3:58:31 PM PST by Utah Girl
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After a president gives a big speech, the analysis comes in waves. First, he's judged on delivery and performance. Then, consensus develops on what the "big news" in the speech was.
FINALLY, AFTER EVERYONE'S attention has begun moving elsewhere, comes some sense of what part of the speech-if any-will have long-term impact. My guess is that what will live on from last night's State of the Union Message is a particular presidential proposal that rated little initial coverage.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
It's helping people who want to help, or learn how to help, themselves that appeals to conservatives.
Jonathan Alter doesn't have a Q ERTY6 clue the clintons were utter failures (and the GOP had better exploit it) BUMP! We must take the offensive. Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference today (C-SPAN), Bob Livingston dispatched "it's the economy, stupid," the clinton mantra -- (and together with the FBI files, the only thing that kept the co-rapists in the Oval Office and out of the slammer) -- with an incisiveness and toughness not usually associated with the GOP. (Is the right finally getting it?) Livingston said the "it's the economy, stupid" clinton scheme demonstrated that the clintons and their gang "are either stupid, themselves, or they were derelict." It's the terrorism...and character...stupid Compartmentalization scheme a fraud Does anyone still sentient after eight years of the clintons really believe that the clintons and their "infrastructure" really want Bush to succeed where the co-rapists failed so utterly? To sabotage Bush is merely to extend into realtime the method of legacy-building historically preferred by the clintons; that is, trash other presidents in an effort to hoist their own sorry collective heft from history's dustbin. The clintons are constitutionally incapable of understanding that the bottom line is not power or money or Nobel Peace Prizes, and certainly not misbegotten power or money or Nobel Peace Prizes. They and their minions continue to undermine the Bush war effort even as they assume poses and mouth poll-tested phrases to the contrary. But Bush sees right through this. In his State of the Union speech, Bush told us: This was a direct blow to the collective clinton scheme...and paunch...and legacy.
y any measure, the Carville-Shrum scheme to attack Bush by clintonoid compartmentalization ("praise the Bush war effort / pan the Bush character and economy") isn't working. Ask any pollster or pundit.
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Where I come from that ain't "community service," -- it's called "a job."
Time to consider working in a defense plant.
Look at it this way-- a moderate amount of funding to provide a volunteer a ride or a living allowance could head off massive 'rat funding to hire a lifetime bureaucrat to do half the job and three to supervise.
I once worked for an NPO which got a call from some Federal program wanting to place an older worker. They would pay everything, all we had to do was give him a job to do. Well, we had a bunch of older buildings needing painting and this fellow was glad to do the job. They say he had a problem drinking, but he always worked when he was there. One day three people showed up from the local government office to check on him. I asked him why the interest and he said it was the assignment-- he'd done work before but when someone sent from Washington arrived, all of the field supervisors had to quit drinking coffee and leave the office. As far as he knew, he was one of the few people actually being served by the program, so he was a popular guy to check on, particularly with his "drinking problem" rumors.
The story had a happy ending. After about a month on the job, one of our contractors noticed the work ethic of the guy and hired him away.
A "volunteer" like a retired school teacher could've done the same job as those three lifetime "field representatives" and at least an equal number back in the office.
Maybe you call working for $9600 a year a job, I call it subsistence. You dont expect these people to volunteer 40 hours a week and then go work another 40 so they can have a roof over there head and three meals a day. Or maybe you want them to live with "mom & dad" while they do their volunteer work.
Although I've already given more than two years with active duty and reserve military service, I will look for more ways to make volunteering a part of my everyday life, if only to set an example. It's curious, in essence this is his father's 'thousand points of light' put more plainly and understandably. I'm sure at some point the country will tire of President Bush's plainspoken manner and yearn for more uplifting rhetoric, but Bush's value will endure. Recall it was Lincoln's plain short address at Gettysburg that is remembered (and still memorized) today, not the then famous orator Edward Evertt's formal speech in the high style that was the centerpiece of the Gettysburg ceremony.
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