Well, I won't get into the inaccuracy of saying the Wall Street meltdown is in any meaningful way bipartisan, offering instead something more relevant to this group: Obama's stand on the arts!<br>
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<H1 class=title>Obama promises strong arts policy<br>
By <A href="http://artthreat.net/byuser/7">Michael Lithgow</A>, February 1, 2008 </H1>
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<div>Not usually a hot-button topic in American presidential politics, Barack Obama has issued a comprehensive statement in support of arts and arts education in the United States. </div>
<div>His campaign position focuses on nine points: Reinvesting in arts education, expanding public grants for arts education, publicly championing arts education, creating an artist corps, increasing funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, promoting cultural diplomacy, providing health care for artists and ensuring tax fairness for artists. </div>
<div>Sure, its only words and promises at this stage. And, a quick check of<A href="http://www.barackobama.com/index.php"> Obama's website</A> reveals that arts and culture do not appear in his master list of campaign issues, a drop-down list from the website's navigation bar. Still, it's good to see that the arts and cultural policy are at least on the agenda, and also to see a front-running candidate campaigning for increased funding and support for arts education and artists. This should definitely be part of the national debate. </div>
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nds. Demand answers from the candidates and their campaign offices about arts funding. Put support for the arts, artists and arts education an the political agenda. Tell Obama to add Arts & Culture to his drop-down list of issues on his website. >>></div>
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Obama has the plan on his web site. You can go to <A href="http://www.barackobama.com/issues">www.barackobama.com/issues</A> and click on "arts". His full plan is there.<br>
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I can't find any statements or policies or proposals from John McCain on the arts, pro or con. If anyone else can, let us know!<br>
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The Wall Street catastrophes were defininitely bi partisan. <br>
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We need change we can believe in, not change at any price.<br>
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Just remember, when you discuss public policy, you have to go more than with just one's gut, or with some kind of Method exercise feeling or impression. We're talking about deductive reasoning rather than "What if.......?" or trying to think of one's self as an ice cream cone (remember Chorus Line?)<br>
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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:51 -0700<br>
From: <A __removedLink__318314014__href="mailto:ensemble-theatre@sbcglobal.net">ensemble-theatre@sbcglobal.net</A><br>
To: <A __removedLink__318314014__href="mailto:neohiopal@listserve.com">neohiopal@listserve.com</A>; <A __removedLink__318314014__href="mailto:bwillis@rightupmedia.com">bwillis@rightupmedia.com</A><br>
Subject: [NEohioPAL] So much for thoughtful opinions.<br>
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<div>It does not need to be repeated as often, but the slogan, "Change we can believe"</div>
<div>has captivated everyone who has a brain left in their head. After the catastrophes that have engulfed Wall Street and soon the rest of us, the mandate to the American electorate is crystal clear - this country needs one Democrat in the White House, and a majority of them in the US Congress. Only then will the pendulum be able to swing to the other side of the</div>
<div>case, and we can set our watches again, to tell what time the food stores open, and feed ourselves. </div>
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<div>If the article quoted in the NYT is a thoughtful opinion, then someone should wash</div>
<div>Mr. Brooks mouth out with soap. Not that I would abridge his First Amendment </div>
<div>prerogatives, but just point his segue in the right direction so he can keep his balance. </div>
<div>That piece of writing is a blatant passive-aggressive attempt at sheer support for the</di v>
<div>governor of Alaska cloaked in an adolescent attempt to discredit 'that community organizer." from Illinois. </div>
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<div>Get over it, elephant riders, the jackass is going down Pennsylania Avenue straight</div>
<div>to 1600, and nothing any of you THINK, SAY, or DO can change it. Now get yourself</div>
<div>off to your moose stew cooking class before the chef devours the lesson. </div>
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--- On <B>Wed, 9/17/08, Brooke Willis <I><<A __removedLink__318314014__href="mailto:bwillis@rightupmedia.com">bwillis@rightupmedia.com</A>></I></B> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] A thoughtful opinion written by a Republican pundit, NY TIMES Op-Ed 9/15/08<br>
To: <A __removedLink__318314014__href="mailto:neohiopal@listserve.com">neohiopal@listserve.com</A><br>
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 4:47 PM<br>
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<PRE>Please please please let's not start this....
We get plenty of political opinions in our regular e-mail these days.
Thank you.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Matthew Wright wrote:
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: September 15, 2008
Philosophical debates arise at the oddest times, and in the heat of
this election season, one is now rising in Republican ranks. The narrow
question is this: Is Sarah Palin20qualified to be vice president? Most
conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something that feels so good
could not possibly be wrong. But a few commentators, like George Will,
Charles Krauthammer, David Frum and Ross Douthat demur, suggesting in
different ways that she is unready.
The issue starts with an evaluation of Palin, but does not end there.
This argument also is over what qualities the country needs in a leader
and what are the ultimate sources of wisdom.There was a time when
conservatives did not argue about this. Conservatism was once a frankly
elitist movement. Conservatives stood against radical egalitarianism
and the destruction of rigorous standards. They stood up for classical
education, hard-earned knowledge, experience and prudence. Wisdom was
acquired through immersion in the best that has been thought and said.
But, especially in America, there has always been a separate, populist,
strain. For those in this school, book knowledge is suspect but
practical knowledge is respected. The city is corrupting and the
universities are kindergartens for overeducated fools.
The elitists favor sophistication, but the common-sense folk favor
simplicity. The elitists favor deliberation, but the populists favor
instinct.
This populist tendency produced the term-limits movement based on the
belief that time in government destroys character but contact with
grass-roots America gives one grounding in real life. And now it has
pr
oduced Sarah Palin.
Palin is the ultimate small-town renegade rising from the frontier to
do battle with the corrupt establishment. Her followers take pride in
the way she has aroused fear, hatred and panic in the minds of the
liberal elite. The feminists declare that she’s not a real woman
because she doesn’t hew to their rigid categories. People who’ve never
been in a Wal-Mart think she is parochial because she has never
summered in Tuscany.
Look at the condescension and snobbery oozing from elite quarters, her
backers say. Look at the endless string of vicious, one-sided attacks
in the news media. This is what elites produce. This is why regular
people need to take control.
And there’s a serious argument here. In the current Weekly Standard,
Steven Hayward argues that the nation’s founders wanted uncertified
citizens to hold the highest offices in the land. They did not believe
in a separate class of professional executives. They wanted rough and
rooted people like Palin.
I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn’t just lived through
the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it
was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice.
And the problem with this attitude is that, especially in his first
term, it made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance,
the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requi
res acquired
skills. Most of all, it requires prudence.
What is prudence? It is the ability to grasp the unique pattern of a
specific situation. It is the ability to absorb the vast flow of
information and still discern the essential current of events — the
things that go together and the things that will never go together. It
is the ability to engage in complex deliberations and feel which
arguments have the most weight.
How is prudence acquired? Through experience. The prudent leader
possesses a repertoire of events, through personal involvement or the
study of history, and can apply those models to current circumstances
to judge what is important and what is not, who can be persuaded and
who can’t, what has worked and what hasn’t.
Experienced leaders can certainly blunder if their minds have
rigidified (see: Rumsfeld, Donald), but the records of leaders without
long experience and prudence is not good. As George Will pointed out,
the founders used the word “experience” 91 times in the Federalist
Papers. Democracy is not average people selecting average leaders. It
is average people with the wisdom to select the best prepared.
Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a
corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of
governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national
issues, does not have a repertoire of hist
oric patterns and, like
President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with
brashness and excessive decisiveness.
The idea that “the people” will take on and destroy “the establishment”
is a utopian fantasy that corrupted the left before it corrupted the
right. Surely the response to the current crisis of authority is not to
throw away standards of experience and prudence, but to select leaders
who have those qualities but not the smug condescension that has so
marked the reaction to the Palin nomination in the first place.
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