by Oliver McGee on 02/09/13
In the book, "Jumping The Aisle: How I Became a Black Republican in the Age of Obama," it states:
"When did we become a country with fewer wise
men left? We must find them; whosesoever these great eagles fly. For these wise
men shape the ideas, ideals, and mission of a wanting nation these days and
into our future.
"Where
are the “Walters” we could trust — Walter Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Walter
Cronkite?
"And
of course, we all miss Paul Harvey’s “Good Day!”
"Millions of Americans listened to the Walters
and Harvey, which were widely broadcasted over thousands of stations nationwide.
"The
Walters and Harvey had the best of ability to lead as well as to shape our conversations
at the kitchen table about jobs, our health, and our energy.
"As
they provided us with the facts, whence we concluded their substantiations and
confirmations were right.
"When
we think of the endowments which these great wise men encompassed, we are
impressed by their variety.
"The
Walters and Harvey were satirists, who revealed the truth by casting a sunbeam of
bitterness upon it.
"The
Walters and Harvey were humorists, whose wit was as current and original as the
news of the day.
"The
Walters and Harvey were ironists, who revealed the inconsistencies between
sentimentality and brutality in which the world is steeped.
"The
Walters and Harvey were dramatists, who crowded into the compactness of a few
lines a fulfilling narrative and sometimes added to it the surprise ending of a
short story or a melodrama.
"The
Walters and Harvey were lyrists, whose poetry had rhythm and whose prose had
blues.
"The
Walters and Harvey were biographers, who gave to the loneliness of teeming
millions the intimacies of neighborhood gossip, community debate, and national
discourse.
"The
Walters and Harvey were lexicographers, who invented new words which tickled
the brain and surprised the eye.
"The
Walters and Harvey were philosophers, who disguised their profoundness in slang
in order not to appear pretentious.
"And
when we combine all the gifts of these great wise men — that of the satirist,
humorist, ironist, dramatist, lyrist, biographer, lexicographer, philosopher
and add to it the level-headedness, reasonableness, judiciousness, and prudence
of America, then we have a composite picture of what is lost nowadays."
In the book "Jumping The Aisle," the second chapter is entitled, "Hope and Change, A Strip Mining of America." "Hope and Change" is about creating value. "A Strip Mining of America" is about value destruction. If we are leading in value destruction, we better have a hard saddle, because we are in for a hard ride on that horse. If we are leading in creating value, we have a fine saddle of the finest soft leather on a much easier ride on a much faster horse - perhaps even the fastest one! The second chapter of my book is showing the way rationally in a balanced discussion about both "Hope and Change" - creating value, and "A Strip Mining of America" - value destruction.
Read more about both sides of the debate on America's value inside: https://www.createspace.com/3810866
by Oliver McGee on 02/09/13
"On Thursday afternoon, Republican National Committee Reince Priebus met with a group of black Republicans in Atlanta, as part of what one participant called a "listening tour."
"Andre Walker, a Georgia Republican who left the state Democra
tic Party in 2010 (and was once part of the Democrats' state executive committee), wrote about the meeting on his blog.
"The Republican Party has to get into the black community. We have to be the party of Bankhead and Buckhead. We have to be on the campuses of the University of Florida and Florida A & M. And Republicans have to come up off some money to do all of that. Wallace Coopwood, the oldest black Republican in the room, put it very succinctly to Chairman Priebus. Talk is cheap, and the Republican National Committee needs to back up their talk with some cold hard cash.
"RNC National Finance Chair Ray Washburne was in the room. Washburne is the guy who, along with Reince Priebus, has to convince Republican donors to give freely in support of African-American outreach. Priebus committed the Republican Party to black community outreach, and it is up to Washburne and Priebus to fund it.
"[Folks] have e-mailed Walker asking how donor money would be used to fund minority outreach."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/black-georgia-republican-_n_2646180.html
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