Column: Next stop, victory
(11/11/03 5:00am)
I haven't asked around, but I'll bet I was the only Duke student who heard the phrase "All Aboard!" this weekend.
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I haven't asked around, but I'll bet I was the only Duke student who heard the phrase "All Aboard!" this weekend.
Most associate the final day of October with fright. This year, however, members of the Duke community got a big scare on the month's first day.
Republicans and Democrats have different memories of the 2000 Presidential debates. The former remember Governor George W. Bush sticking to his guns against three different Al Gores--one pompous, one heavily sedated and one maniacal--and showing skeptical Americans that he was quick on his feet and knowledgeable about foreign policy.
It's bad enough that we cannot trust all our professors to be objective. Now we cannot even trust our librarians.
While walking through Craven Quad last week, I passed a student who I knew to be a homosexual. He was wearing a navy blue "gay? fine by me." shirt. It was no doubt a comical sight; a homosexual declaring personal tolerance for homosexuality. But my amusement quickly waned as I began thinking about the brief, but eventful history of the "gay? fine by me." movement.
He was a respected NBA star. He endorsed everything from shoes to food to clothing to beverages. He portrayed himself as a family man and was heavily marketed to children. And now, he was an outed adulterer. Maybe more.
I thought I was going to make it through the whole year without a rant. Sorry.
"We're getting ourselves into a big mess," they say, "it's not our place to liberate the rest of the world from oppression."
President George W. Bush raised some eyebrows last week during his State of the Union Address when he asked Congress "to commit $15 billion over the next five years, including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean."
Though we have several recesses throughout the year, there is only one holiday on which classes do not meet - Martin Luther King, Jr., Day. Why is this?
Much has changed in the past few weeks; most importantly there's about to be a new Senate Majority Leader. And if you ask me, the events which led to Trent Lott's resignation were indicative not just of Lott's shortcomings, but of two major problems in the American political arena: politicians basing their stances on political calculation instead of conviction and the double standard that applies to racism in politics.
I see it on walkways and I see it on bookbags. "No blood for oil." Are you kidding me? No blood for oil? Just who, exactly, is advocating such an exchange? I'm sorry, but the logic behind the antiwar movement on this campus escapes me.
When Jesse Jackson spoke at the Greater Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens, Ga., on Sunday, he utilized his favorite tactic--divisiveness. This time, Jackson used the old standby to attack Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Has anyone been to the Republican National Committee's website recently? It features a hilarious Flash Movie, a cartoon showing Tom Daschle, Dick Gephardt and other pro-choice advocates walking into a hospital nursery with guns and shooting a third of the babies. The ad then makes the excellent point that voting for Democrats next month is equivalent to killing babies. Truth through satire. How brilliant.
Days before the 2000 Presidential election, Joe Lieberman said that when he thought "of a solitary figure standing in the Oval Office, weighing life and death decisions that can affect the security of our country and the stability of the world," he saw Al Gore. Given the content of the speech Gore made Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, we should all give thanks that Lieberman's vision did not become a reality.
I'm not mad.
Ronald Reagan made the poor poorer.