WE HAVE NO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. This is quite a read!

[fooj]

http://peaceandjustice.org/article.php?story=20060306090609596



3/6/06 - Kurt Vonnegut's "Stardust Memory"
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Harvey Wasserman
Columbus Free Press (Ohio)

On a cold, cloudy night, the lines threaded all the way around the Ohio State campus. News that Kurt Vonnegut was speaking at the Ohio Union prompted these “apathetic” heartland college students to start lining up in the early afternoon. About 2,000 got in to the Ohio Union. At least that many more were turned away. It was the biggest crowd for a speaker here since Michael Moore.


In an age dominated by hype and sex, neither Moore nor Vonnegut seems a likely candidate to rock a campus whose biggest news has been the men’s and women’s basketball teams’ joint assault on Big Ten championships.

But maybe there’s more going on here than Fox wants us to think.

Vonnegut takes an easy chair across from Prof. Manuel Luis Martinez, a poet and teacher of writing. He grabs Martinez and semi-whispers into his ear (and the mike) “What can I say here?”

Martinez urges candor.

“Well,” says Vonnegut, “I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”

The students seem to agree.

“The only difference between Bush and Hitler,” Vonnegut adds, “is that Hitler was elected.”

“You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.”

<snip>

Peace.


:smoke:

[natrat]

1. place should be called"people who think they are represented underground

[sadiesworld]

2. Very nice.

Thanks.

[Stuckinthebush]

3. I have a friend who likes to write

She has never been to college, and is concerned that she doesn't know how to write correctly. I told her that there were many writers who never went to college and many who did. In fact, many writers would tell you that college will just screw up your writing style anyway. I told her that Kurt Vonnegut would agree with that statement (which he kind of talks about in the link you gave us). She said, "Who is Kurt Vonnegut."

My stunned silence made her feel very bad. I sent her your link, and have told her to get down to the bookstore and buy some Vonnegut immediately.

Thanks for the link!

[caligirl]

5. my whole family loves Vonnegut. 17 yr old son reads his stuff.

[Extend a Hand]

4. “You’re all perfectly safe, by the way. I took off my shoes at the airport

The terrorists hate the smell of feet".

bahahahahahaha
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[fooj]

6. I liked that, too!

:spray:

I love his snarky comments, don't you?

[cain_7777]

7. Kurt Vonnegut for President 08

He has lived his whole life perceiving the reality of life for what it truly is, and is wise enough to call it how he sees it. It's a sad truth but Americans only have a sense of Democracy, and unless we start listening to people as wise as Kurt Vonnegut, we'll even lose that. This country is slowly mutating into that which our founding father's tried to prevent with the framing of the Constitution. Most Americans are so disassociated from their own history over the generations they have forgotten what our founding fathers feared most.

[fooj]

8. Welcome to DU!

Peace.

[DrGonzoLives]

9. What does this have to do with the Democratic party?

:shrug:

[fooj]

10. It came from the link...

“We have people in this country who are richer than whole countries,” he says. “They run everything.

“We have no Democratic Party. It’s financed by the same millionaires and billionaires as the Republicans.

“So we have no representatives in Washington. Working people have no leverage whatsoever.

Peace.