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To: freeeee
It's an old statue, and no one seems to have objected to it for the last 70 years. Ashcroft should change where he holds press conferences if it bothers him that much.

Would you like a picture of you as seen in reply #67 to be on every front page in America?

Anyway maybe they can't change where he holds press conferences, due to logistical reasons. That statue is another FDR legacy, I could do without.

111 posted on 01/28/2002 7:13:45 AM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
Would you like a picture of you as seen in reply #67 to be on every front page in America?

I wouldn't want my picture on the front page of every paper, but if it was, the statue wouldn't bother me. If it did, I'd just move the podium.

Anyway maybe they can't change where he holds press conferences, due to logistical reasons.

That is a possibility, but I doubt something as trivial as moving a podium is impossible.

That statue is another FDR legacy, I could do without.

I'd prefer to work on undoing FDR's influence in government policy first, and worry about this statue later.

125 posted on 01/28/2002 7:23:03 AM PST by freeeee
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To: Dane
I have seen the statues myself when in Washington, D.C. The artist was more interested in working scale, texture, and shadow together to create this art then politics.

They left me with an upbeat mood about the building, and by association the Justice Department. I like good art, and I note that the artist, Gutzon Borglum who carved Mt. Rushmore left plenty of bare female secondary sexual characteristics in the open in a few of his breathtaking sculptures he did before age sixty when he started his last great piece of enormous scale in South Dakota.

I don't want to go look at elephant dung, or jars of urine in some art that has been controversial lately; but I also don't want to see art become the commercial grade, cleansed product that used to make me want to throw-up whenever I saw Soviet or Nazi enforced standards present in their art.

No, I have a bad feeling about this, as I do about the art BYU had redone on campus to show historic Mormon figures without their beards because the students were not allowed facial hair either.

169 posted on 01/28/2002 7:44:59 AM PST by ThreePantherEightyDuce
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