i_wanna_be_a_speechwriter stork daddy We must not fetishize America, because it is dangerous to fetishize anything. America may well be informed and defined by its past benedictions and sins, but it cannot be so insular as to be constrained by them. America is to a degree, in Kant’s analytic sense, what America does next. The story of America must be the story of its people more than the story of its people is the story of America writ large, if democracy is to mean anything in a world in flux, faced with new promises, challenges, and possibilities. And yet, what is it about our country common enough to voice, to evoke with flags and statues, to inspire the fulfillment of duties and the dedication of entire lives? Simply put, it is the promise that can be carried by multitudinous voices with varied senses of self, the addendum that bears adding to every creed – that there is more to democracy than the tyranny of the majority, that in a world often alien despite our best attempts at foresight, there remains the inalienable, the unfading protections and decencies that warrant unfading colors on our flag. This is America – the system of governance that has allowed a new voice to stand before a new world, still perfecting the vision of the founders, taking his place in a conversation that remains unbroken because generation after generation were inspired enough by its promise to fight for its vitality. And that promise was that people could offer their identities to a great marketplace of ideas, secure in the knowledge that the right of those identities to exist was not imperiled by force of government, by vote or fiat. America is the shared belief that the slow arduous road of persuasion is to be preferred to the dislocation of revolution and the desolate instability of oppression. We have been slow on keeping our promise often, and we have promises we have yet to fulfill, but if the flag is a reminder of anything, it is that America is about moving forward – cautiously perhaps, but inexorably. 090120 ... Strideo Speech writer! (speech writer!) Dear Sir or Madam, will you hear my speech? It took me weeks to write, will you take a listen? It's based on a speech by a man named Lear And I need a job, so I want to be a speech writer, Speech writer! It's a thousand words, give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a day or two. I can make it longer if you like the style, I can change it round and I want to be a speech writer, Speech writer! Speech writer! (speech writer!) Speech writer - speech writer! Speech writer - speech writer! Hmmm, it just doesn't have the same ring to it . . . ... 090120 ... phil Dear Sir or Madam, Will you hear my quoth, I walk my dog while I'm playing golf. I want some ribs in some bbq, I'll be at the store with a non-employed speech writer. Speech writer. Just let me know if you want some food, we've got a couple of bucks, we'll be back in two. He's busy moving to a low rent pad, happy guy but he wants to be a speech writer. Speech writer. Employed speech writer. Writer, writer. 120120 what's it to you? who go blather from