ok. for what it’s worth i’ll offer a few opinions about george w’s speech the other night. i know, i know, opinions are flying everywhere these days, but nonetheless, here are a few of my opinions.
1-i was impressed that he stressed that this is not a war against islam.
2-i loved the fact that giuliani and pataki got the biggest round of applause. call me petty, and i’ve never been a huge fan of either of them until this last week, but my hometown pride came out when they got that big round of applause.
3-seeing the wife of a man who had died in the pennsylvania crash brought a tear to my eye, as did the police shield of the fallen nyc policeman.
4-sad to say, everything else pretty much terrified me. but maybe that’s just me being overly sensitive. and i really don’t want to criticise the man or his speech. but before the speech i was in a pleasant mood. after the speech i felt nervous. i don’t think that was his intention. ah well.
living in nyc there’s this definite feeling of ‘waiting for the other shoe to drop’.
which might be why a lot of the people whom i know in nyc aren’t so filled with the holy vengeance that you see in the rest of the country. a lot of new yorkers just seem to want their good old normal lives back. or so i’ve observed.
in all honesty, every time i post an update a part of me has no idea if i’ll be around to read it when it’s actually put up on the website. maybe i’m just overly nervous, but i’m scared. and for it’s strengths, george w’s speech definitely didn’t make me feel any more secure or less scared. but like i said, opinions are flying everywhere. and these are just my opinions.
and to end on a happy note:
‘a noble spirit embiggens the smallest man’
’embiggens? is that even a word?’
‘why it’s a perfectly cromulent word.’
and
‘me not learn english? that’s unpossible.’
thanks
moby