At Bill Clinton's speach
Jan. 25th, 2004 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiHe's speaking this afternoon here in Ft Lauderdale, and this is my contemporaneous account of it, via Sidekick.
I still have such a crush on this man. It's now fifteen years since I sat through the whole of his speech at the democratic national connection, drawing in red on my white keds while I waited for some sort of sound bite to use on the 11 pm news (I was an intern that summer).
First impression - he's lost weight and he looks *great*.
He's funny, he's brilliant and he's not perfect, but he is someone who loves this country and did some wonderful work to make this country do amazing things during his presidency.
There are Clark people here and some with Hillary '08 signage, which I think is a little defeatest for 2004 :X
He spoke about the projects he's been working on in the last 3 years, including the conflict resolution work he's done around the world, and his anti-AIDS work in cutting drug and testing costs.
What we do as a nation, he said, is important - our collective decionmaking as a country. The fundamental thing each person needs is an understanding, from his or her point of view, as to how the world works, and how it should work. In short, a worldview.
Informational interdependence is something that, when he mentioned it, made me think of LJ. Everything we discuss here is a window into the world we live in, and every post we read is a chance to look into the world of someone else - sometimes in the same city, sometimes around the world.
I've seen the "Dubya's Resume" thing floating around again this weekend. How can that man be president? What in the world does he do? How does he fill his mind every day? What's he going to do after his term (singlular sense) ends? Jog?
Pause.
It seems someone in my row has just had a heart attack. They've called the paramedics and they're on their way. God, this is surreal.
They have her on oxygen and just took her out; she's conscious, thank God.
Ok, will concentrate on Bill again.
We need to think more, he said, and shout less. He spoke about the need to have more information, and to understand why decisions are made to vote for and against things, rather than listening to the administrations justification.
HE's answering imprompteau questions now, about Northern Ireland and the economy, the telecoms
Which other president in recent memory could do this? He thought ahead with so many different projects, from Ireland to China, and his mind just synthesizes everything together. Yes, a worldview - to be able to hold disparate concepts in some sort of unity - when your mind moves so quickly, you can create that sort of spontaneous integration.
He spoke about the difference between republicans and democrats in elections. Democrats go in looking to fall in love with a candidate whereas the republicans know that to win they must fall in line. He said the reason he will not endorse a primary candidate because they all helkped in his administration in various ways, and he thinks any of them would make a fine president.
A note for the writers here - he's writing his own memoirs in longhand, by himself (with 2 researchers) in westchester, and he said if it's bad, it's his fault.
We're off now - I'll post the one photo I took later. But what a grand afternoon1
I still have such a crush on this man. It's now fifteen years since I sat through the whole of his speech at the democratic national connection, drawing in red on my white keds while I waited for some sort of sound bite to use on the 11 pm news (I was an intern that summer).
First impression - he's lost weight and he looks *great*.
He's funny, he's brilliant and he's not perfect, but he is someone who loves this country and did some wonderful work to make this country do amazing things during his presidency.
There are Clark people here and some with Hillary '08 signage, which I think is a little defeatest for 2004 :X
He spoke about the projects he's been working on in the last 3 years, including the conflict resolution work he's done around the world, and his anti-AIDS work in cutting drug and testing costs.
What we do as a nation, he said, is important - our collective decionmaking as a country. The fundamental thing each person needs is an understanding, from his or her point of view, as to how the world works, and how it should work. In short, a worldview.
Informational interdependence is something that, when he mentioned it, made me think of LJ. Everything we discuss here is a window into the world we live in, and every post we read is a chance to look into the world of someone else - sometimes in the same city, sometimes around the world.
I've seen the "Dubya's Resume" thing floating around again this weekend. How can that man be president? What in the world does he do? How does he fill his mind every day? What's he going to do after his term (singlular sense) ends? Jog?
Pause.
It seems someone in my row has just had a heart attack. They've called the paramedics and they're on their way. God, this is surreal.
They have her on oxygen and just took her out; she's conscious, thank God.
Ok, will concentrate on Bill again.
We need to think more, he said, and shout less. He spoke about the need to have more information, and to understand why decisions are made to vote for and against things, rather than listening to the administrations justification.
HE's answering imprompteau questions now, about Northern Ireland and the economy, the telecoms
Which other president in recent memory could do this? He thought ahead with so many different projects, from Ireland to China, and his mind just synthesizes everything together. Yes, a worldview - to be able to hold disparate concepts in some sort of unity - when your mind moves so quickly, you can create that sort of spontaneous integration.
He spoke about the difference between republicans and democrats in elections. Democrats go in looking to fall in love with a candidate whereas the republicans know that to win they must fall in line. He said the reason he will not endorse a primary candidate because they all helkped in his administration in various ways, and he thinks any of them would make a fine president.
A note for the writers here - he's writing his own memoirs in longhand, by himself (with 2 researchers) in westchester, and he said if it's bad, it's his fault.
We're off now - I'll post the one photo I took later. But what a grand afternoon1
