Too Many Footnotes
Hauerwas’s book is good, but every page is about half text and half footnotes. I suppose I should expect that from a book based on a lecture series, but it’s slow going nonetheless. In Paradise Lost I’m up to book eight, where Raphael tells Adam that astronomy is a noble profession but always subject to revision. Or at least that’s how I read it.
Can’t remember precisely what I dreamed about last night, but I do know that Mary decided to start anew the fight against canine tyranny. When I started to get up to take the dog out, she told me not to and just yelled at the dog to “go lay down.” Sabrina did not go outside between ten o’clock last night and five thirty this morning–I suppose Mary wins round one.
Now that I know the context behind “I voted for the money before I voted against it,” I’ve actually gained a degree of respect for Mr. Kerry. My hunch is that most people aren’t going to look it up, so Karl Rove’s gambit will likely work. By the time the election rolls around, my hunch is that ninety percent of Americans will be familiar with the one-liner but will have no idea that Kerry was trying to push for some responsible policy by voting for one but not the other of two Iraq funding bills. Oh well.
by
Great blog. I surf the web looking for blogs like
this. Your site was on point and will be back again!
I beg of you, just check out my hi hawaii house cleaning blog.
[...] Behold this post, in which, four years ago, I suggested that Kerry take the time and effort to make clear exactly what his “I voted for it before I voted against it” meant, in the hopes that the actual facts might help his case.? In that case, Kerry voted against a funding bill that put the war on Mr. Bush’s credit card (that is to say, the tax burden of my son’s generation) but for a version that required America’s wealthiest to return their presents to Santa Bush and used those funds to pay for the war.? He never took my advice, and I have to imagine that’s because he did not have the time to read my blog.? Since Obama has (or at the very least one of his high-level staffers), I think I can claim some credit if he goes on to win.? After all, when McCain accused him, as Bush’s people accused Kerry four years ago, of voting against war funding, he immediately replied that he voted not against the funding per se but against a version that left the war open-ended (perhaps for McCain’s hundred years) and for one that actually set expectations for how the war progresses to its finish. [...]