http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=3853222&page=1
Funny, aren't we hauntingly close to the anniversary of Abraham
Lincoln's 272 words delivered Nov. 19th, 1863? "Now we are engaged in
a great civil war, testing whether [this] nation, or any nation, so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." Edward Everett (Harvard
valedictorian 1811) spoke for 2 hours and 13,067 words before Lincoln
that day.
Funny, how many people think HLS grad Barack Obama would be the best
US President? They have the association in their heads that he
appears to be a "black" man with an "odd" name
http://implicit.harvard.edu , he doesn't have a chance of winning the
election? Funny, wasn't Lincoln an odd looking character with a
high-pitched Kentucky accent? Hillary Clinton is an exemplary human
being. She would be a great US Vice-President. If she wins the
Democratic primary we have to hope that this isn't a time in history
where we needed to push beneath gender symbolism and being
non-offensive in our choice for the next US President? Do we remain
engaged in the test Lincoln spoke of? Maybe Lincoln's words at
Gettysburg no longer apply? "The world will little note, nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced."
Perry