Just came back from JFK Library

[YankeyMCC]

here in Boston.

I took my son, he asked to go, he'd been there once before on a school trip. I hadn't been since I was in junior high I think.

I was really very nice but also kinda depressing. I looked at all the pictures of people around the world welcoming him with smiles and cheers, waving (not burning) American flags for him, the gifts people around the world (including children from around the world) sent him and I thought of how our current president and consequently our nation is viewed today and it made me ill.

I listened to tapes of JFK talking about the direction of the nation, the value of our ideals, about separation of church and state ("...it's not what kind of church I believe in that matters, it's the kind of America I believe in...") and thought of the bumbling speech and threats to the separation of church in state perpetrated by our current president and it made me wretch.

I watched tapes of interviews of then Senator Kennedy where he confidently and smartly described why people in the Middle East and South east Asia looked at America and the west in general with suspicion and fear and I thought of the dangerous and ignorant foreign policy of the current administration and I despaired for my son's future.

It can be a dangerous thing to pick to high a yard stick with which to measure the current administration. And it's not a good sign when a society has to look to the past for pride.

[WilliamPitt]

1. Going to church, seemingly a million years ago

http://www.legitgov.org/library_WP_church.html

[YankeyMCC]

2. Very nice thx

"Some might call it blasphemous to refer to such a place as a church, but they do not understand my concept of worship. As did Abraham Lincoln, I bend my knee to the altar of American democracy."

Well said indeed. When I speak of my church I have typically meant the "White Mountains" in New Hampshire but now I will also include a second type of church in my list, places to worship (and by worship I mean, work to keep, preserve and expand) democracy and freedom. The JFK library will be high in the list of these, along with the Lincoln memorial and other such places.

thanks.

[Breeze54]

3. Will you be at the St Pat's Breakfast tomorrow too?

That would be awesome!!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts about JFK, etc.

On March 19th, the 3rd Anniversary of the War, our elected officials
will be gathering to laugh and joke for the Annual St. Patricks Day Breakfast
in South Boston.
MFSO, along with Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and others
will be outside of the breakfast to let them know the war is no laughing matter!

Sunday March 19, 2006
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Boston Convention Center
415 Summer St. in South Boston

The Convention Center is 5 blocks from the World Trade Center bus stop,
on the MBTA's Silver Line. Or take the #7 bus from South Station on the Red Line.
South Station is only 3/4 mile away. There is on street parking as well as parking
lots nearby, spots will fill up quickly.

:kick:

[rodeodance]

4. but some things (like what you describe)--can happen again. yes.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. I think the GWBuxh library will just be a deposititory for embarassing or

incriminating evidence.
He already put all the evidence of his past Texas poltix in his father's library.

Apparently the American public doesn't have a library card. It must be a way around the FOIA.