[Peace-discuss] But I'm a Cheerleader!

[Laurie Solomon]

>political science is to science as military music is to music - 
>cheerleading, in both cases. --CGE

As blogging and posts to list servers and mailing lists is to political 
activism.

-----Original Message----- 
From: C. G. Estabrook
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:47 PM
To: Peace-discuss List
Subject: [Peace-discuss] But I'm a Cheerleader!

[In spite of the prose, the following letter to the NYT was not written by 
an
8-year-old, but by a professor of political science at Ohio University -
illustrating once again that political science is to science as military 
music
is to music - cheerleading, in both cases. --CGE]


[It is] wrong to look backward to the New Deal for its contents. Your
grandfather’s Democratic Party isn’t going to cut it in a world that has 
been
radically transformed by the Internet.

The country needs President Obama’s leadership to help us look forward and
address our economic problems in new ways that are every bit as creative as 
the
New Deal was in its day, but that aren’t the same as the New Deal.

The world has changed, and our political parties need to catch up quick! The
gridlock we’ve been seeing is a form of hanging on to the past for both the
Democrats and the Republicans.

SUSAN BURGESS
Athens, Ohio, Aug. 8, 2011


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