http://bornlivelovedie.com/2006/06/28/selling-it/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:59:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://bornlivelovedie.com/2006/06/28/selling-it/#comment-35 born live love die » Fill in the blank Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:29:02 +0000 http://bornlivelovedie.com/2006/06/28/selling-it/#comment-35 [...] The American President is one of my favorite films.  I love this part of the penultimate speech.  But if fill in the blank with just about any Republican, the speech still rings true. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, ________________ is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: Making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle- income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and personal character. [...] […] The American President is one of my favorite films.  I love this part of the penultimate speech.  But if fill in the blank with just about any Republican, the speech still rings true. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, ________________ is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: Making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle-aged, middle-class, middle- income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family and American values and personal character. […]

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