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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yeah, I liked it better when I could stand on a wooden box on a city street 
corner and harangue the passers-by.

On 8/11/11 2:19 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote:
>> 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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