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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CVJ who wrote (87582)	12/27/2000 3:42:33 AM
From: Walkingshadow	Respond to of 132070

cjac, << "What's good enough for General Motors is good enough for the United States." >> LOL! He must've been ex-army---about as subtle as a Sherman tank. Wouldn't make it these days, though I doubt there's any substantial change. RE: Constitutional Correction----I stand nit-pickily corrected, sir. Our sacred Constitution and Declaration of Independence are actually very eye-opening when you delve into them and get inside the shoes of those who wrote them and were behind them. I love those documents, don't get me wrong. And I'm a big admirer of Thomas Jefferson in many ways, slaves or no. He gives new meaning to eloquent. Here's an amusing Thomas Jefferson anecdote: One day JFK was giving a formal White House dinner for a bunch of Nobel laureates. Ever the wag, JFK remarked to the group that this was the greatest collection of intellect the White House dining room had ever assembled---except, of course, when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. And this you might find amusing, or maybe surprising: Thomas Jefferson wrote much of the Declaration of Independence, and did so magnificently, IMHO. But he knew exactly what he was doing, and why, and was extremely skilled at it of course. But in a private letter, he later dismissed the high glorious language he used in the beginning of that document as "...sonorous schoolboy platitudes." Even so, it still sends chills up my spine to read it. Call me stupid, or gullible, but Thomas Jefferson was one incredibly talented guy. It still works, Thomas. Regards, Walkingshadow