Bill Moyers For V.P.!!

[tucsonlib]

Imagine if Obama passed over the usual cast of characters and chose Bill Moyers as his running mate. Wouldn't that put a grin on your face? Wouldn't that be an unbeatable ticket?

[LaStrega]

1. That'd be awesome! n/t

[valerief]

2. Bingo bongo! nt

[HowHasItComeToThis]

3. HERE IS THE LINK

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08152008/watch.html

[iconicgnom]

4. Thanks for that most excellent link!

Bill Moyers is doing what he does best, right now. The link kinda proves that.

Hmmm, compare the conversation between these two with that of John McCain.

Quite a difference - if I'm allowed to overexplain a joke.

[iverglas]

5. k & r n/t

[janet118]

6. I'm not sure Bill Moyers' would do it

I love Bill Moyers. He is like a one-man island of intelligent truth-seeking on the television. At 75, I don't believe he wants or will consider entering the political ring again at this point in his life.

No. For VP, I nominate the man Moyers had as his guest on the Journal last night, Andrew Bacevich. I have rarely witnessed such a long interview where I was completely glued to my seat for the entire length of it. Discussing his book, The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism, this retired Army colonel, graduate of West Point, Vietnam vet, Boston University professor, and father of a son killed in Iraq held up a mirror to America and said, "Go on. Look! Or are we are afraid to meet the enemy because it it us."

The impulses that have landed us in a war of no exits and no deadlines come from within. Foreign policy has, for decades, provided an outward manifestation of American domestic ambitions, urges, and fears. In our own time, it has increasingly become an expression of domestic dysfunction — an attempt to manage or defer coming to terms with contradictions besetting the American way of life. Those contradictions have found their ultimate expression in the perpetual state of war afflicting the United States today.

Gauging their implications requires that we acknowledge their source: They reflect the accumulated detritus of freedom, the by- products of our frantic pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

Read the transcript and weep.

[WinkyDink]

7. Sy Hersh.

[ailsagirl]

8. Sure would be something-- this waiting is unnerving!!!