Kerry's long search for the magic message may be over

NYT/International Herald Tribune ^ | 6-1-04 | David M. Halbfinger

[Steve_Seattle]

I'm wondering what America it was - in 1938 - that Langston Hughes wanted to return to. The America of slavery?

[stillnoprotestsagainstmuslims]

[Steve_Seattle]

Is that an actual poem - or part of one - by Hughes?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Don't know where the body came from, but that unflushed head has to be from Kerry's old fast boat.

[j_tull]

"The Dead Zone" was a great book. Movie wasn't too bad either.

[Lady Jag]

Is that the one he had to sell with his soul?

[Shermy]

Very funny.

Best I could think up "Eat More Brie"

[F.J. Mitchell]

Maybe, but I doubt he got much for both.

[pctech]

I for one would like to know the URL to this guys website. Though I'm not a Vietnam Vet I am a Vet and would like to to let him know I support his efforts.

I'm telling you folks right now, though, if Kerry gets elected then I'm flying my flag upside down in defeat for as long as he's in office.

[G.Mason]

"Wasn't Langston Hughes a well known communist?"

I don't know, but he wrote like one.

Makes him a brother to John F-ing Kerry, a good prospect for his VP (dead or alive), and a poster child for the Democrat socialist Congress (including the Rhinos), and particularly the "black cauci".

[freebilly]

Let America Be America Again (America never was America to me.) Kerry, the flip-flopper, quotes a flip-flopper....

[SJackson]

Post 5 is the full poem Kerry took his one liner from.

Post 60 is from his poem linked below, I left the title out.

Listen, Christ,
You did alright in your day, I reckon—
But that day's gone now.
They ghosted you up a swell story, too,
Called it Bible—
But it's dead now,
The popes and the preachers've
Made too much money from it.
They've sold you to too many

Kings, generals, robbers, and killers—
Even to the Tzar and the Cossacks,
Even to Rockefeller's Church,
Even to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
You ain't no good no more.
They've pawned you
Till you've done wore out.

Goodbye,
Christ Jesus Lord God Jehova,
Beat it on away from here now.
Make way for a new guy with no religion at all—
A real guy named
Marx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker ME—
I said, ME!

Go ahead on now,
You're getting in the way of things, Lord.
And please take Saint Ghandi with you when you go,
And Saint Pope Pius,
And Saint Aimee McPherson,
And big black Saint Becton
Of the Consecrated Dime.
And step on the gas, Christ!
Move!

Don't be so slow about movin?
The world is mine from now on—
And nobody's gonna sell ME
To a king, or a general,
Or a millionaire.

Published in Negro Worker (Nov.-Dec. 1932)

[Lady Jag]

Maybe, but I doubt he got much for both.

That's what he gets for being so eager, that man I loathe.

[CurlyBill]

We can have some fun with this if we insist that Kerry means
Let America be Amerika

Sadly, I think Amerika is exactly what he wants.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Kerry is a very loatheable person.

[RichInOC]

"Harlem" by Langston Hughes, or as I will now rename it, "Requiem for the Democratic Party":

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

[The Wizard]

can you saykiss my ass jkerry

[joesnuffy]

He can always divorce Terresa and marry Hillary....and promise another co-presidency

[uncbob]

"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be."

Ya think he means before HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE and ABORTION and GUN CONTROL

[uncbob]

"Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be."

Ya think he means before HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE and ABORTION and GUN CONTROL