I knew your essay would be good...and I wasn't wrong...
Thank you for posting the transcript...so I could not only read your essay...but read it in context of Rush's monologue.
I have posted many time...and thought to myself hundreds of times...that American History HAS to be the worst taught subject in the Public School system...unless you want to count speaking English correctly...and how to balance a checkbook...but, I digress....
So many young people today have NO idea what our country has done that is noteworthy...and HARD.
This microwave world that they were born into is just too easy, and they have a hard time understanding the word or concept of PATIENCE....
However....I think that the ADULTS are the most guilty...because they don't have the excuse of growing up in the microwave world...
Whenever I hear O'Reilly or other TV people bemoaning that we have been in Iraq WAY TOO LONG....and we need to think about bringing the troops home, and admitting we can't do this...
I wonder...how would any of these people eat, back when you had to wait for food to actually GROW before ready to eat...or a cow or pig had to mature to a big enough size to slaughter for food...or get milk from..
Ah...well...I am in a bad mood tonight...too much Bush bashing this week I think (from the conservatives)...I have gotten used to the media and dems doing it...but the conservatives have worn me out.
I apologize if I didn't make any sense in my ranting and raving...but, I thank you for your essay, truly great writing..and helpful, too!!!
Like the late, great Ralph McGill of the (formerly) great Atlanta Constitution once said to me, "I don't write my newspaper for people who move their lips when they read." The same goes for my articles.
John / Billybob