RHIZOME_RAW: READ WELL...

[Nmherman at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/16/2001 4:45:12 PM Central Daylight Time, 
askrom at graphpaper.com writes:

> A
>  speech where the USA claims the moral high ground for our very real
>  traditions of tolerance and diversity.
>  
>    Clinton would have done it.
>  
>  -Cf

Yes, I can't imagine a worse time to have such a limited President, with such 
a reverse mandate.  Even the pundits on CNN look as if the situation is 
hopeless; they've been acting for so long as if nothing is wrong, and all 
dissent is just vapid teenage angst.  

I'm sifting through my own resources, and I'm reminded of thinking that the 
2000 election actually resulted in no president and that the rest of us would 
have to pick up the slack.  This thought makes me feel fairly sick though, 
considering how deeply my own generation of US citizens, aged say 30 plus or 
minus 7, has sunk into incompetence and inaction.  Except for Thomas Frank I 
feel like we may not be up to our responsibilites in protecting everything 
from the juggernauts of the current US system, put in place mostly by WWII 
politicos and burnt-out boomers.  Of course we have to try, but like they say 
"where are the strong, and who am I to trust in?"

Max Herman

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