Dang Good Words
Here’s a bit of what Anna Quindlen wrote in the current Newsweek. I’ve transcribed this with my own little hands — no copy and paste — because it’s so good:
, , , Perhaps this is the race in which voters will not be charmed by affect or ripostes. After all, eight years ago, the American people embraced a good ole boy at the polls and wound up with a man neither insightful nor intellectual enough to manage the nation.
The presidency was once aspirational. Voters wanted someone smarter, better informed, stronger than they were.
. . . I can’t really be that America has become a nation so small-minded that intellect must be belittled. It can’t really be about likability, can it? I don’t need the president to be my friend. I have friends. What I need is someone to clean up the mess George W. Bush has made of the country I love.
Here is the full article. Hmm . . . I guess I could have copy-and-pasted it.