**To make America trusted and appreciated by other countries in the world, and not held as these Bushites are with a combination of contempt and fear.
All these things are aspects of America that have been materially damaged. And America can waste no time in undertaking to repair this damage.
We are therefore coming to one of those moments --of which America has had perhaps only three or four before-- when presidential leadership can make a profound difference with repurcussions, for better or for worse, for generations to come.
In the next installment of this series, I will indicate some of my reasons for believing that the alternatives to Gore are less promising for this historical moment, and will mostly focus on those alternatives. In the installment after that, I will focus more on the reasons Gore appears to me to be the man for this moment. And in the fourth projected installment, I will indicate how Gore could begin campaigning with a platform and a strategy which will not only help propell him into the presidency but will also provide America with more of the leadership it so desperately needs NOW and for the next two years.
Andrew Bard Schmookler's website www.nonesoblind.org is devoted to understanding the roots of America's present moral crisis and the means by which the urgent challenge of this dangerous moment can be met. Dr. Schmookler is also the author of such books as The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (SUNY Press) and Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide (M.I.T. Press). He also conducts regular talk-radio conversations in both red and blue states.
'All these things are aspects of America that have been materially damaged. And America can waste no time in undertaking to repair this damage.'
Andy, I don't really understand what you mean by 'material damage', and to what extent this damage incorporates other/further damages that may not be specifically 'material'. Would you mind clarifying a bit? Thanks, Katrin
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Katrin R. (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 514 comments)
on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 9:59:10 PM
A quick search has failed to confirm that "material damage" means what I intended to say, so the best thing for me to do is probably to say it another way.
What I had in mind is to say that all these are ways in which the BUshite regime has inflicted real/genuine/important damage on America.
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Andrew Bard Schmookler (314 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 146 comments)
on Monday, February 12, 2007 at 11:26:33 PM
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