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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 10:56 AM
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Pinch me... a message from Michael Moore (this is great!)
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php?id=240

But today we celebrate this triumph of decency over personal attack, of peace over war, of intelligence over a belief that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs just 6,000 years ago. What will it be like to have a smart president? Science, banished for eight years, will return. Imagine supporting our country's greatest minds as they seek to cure illness, discover new forms of energy, and work to save the planet. I know, pinch me.

We may, just possibly, also see a time of refreshing openness, enlightenment and creativity. The arts and the artists will not be seen as the enemy. Perhaps art will be explored in order to discover the greater truths. When FDR was ushered in with his landslide in 1932, what followed was Frank Capra and Preston Sturgis, Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange and Orson Welles. All week long I have been inundated with media asking me, "gee, Mike, what will you do now that Bush is gone?" Are they kidding? What will it be like to work and create in an environment that nurtures and supports film and the arts, science and invention, and the freedom to be whatever you want to be? Watch a thousand flowers bloom! We've entered a new era, and if I could sum up our collective first thought of this new era, it is this: Anything Is Possible.

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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 11:00 AM
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1. Gave me goosebumps.
It truly is a new enlightenment, a renaissance and a sweeping revolution all in one. For the first time in 8 years I'm excited about the future.
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johan helge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-05-08 11:22 AM
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2. Excellent, Michael
At the same time, I wonder: Had George W. Bush become President, if Michael Moore had not supported Nader in 2000?
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