Når hanen er ude...

Mens denne blog har befundet sig i hiatus har nye unge kræfter taget over. Den unge konservative Ronnie Dahl (der også befinder sig her på Øen, bare ude hos Henrik Zimino i Tårnby Kommune) har lavet en blog med navnet "American Politics Daily" som efte sigende er "dedikeret til min store passion amerikansk politik, alt om valgene, partierne, politikerne, meningsmålinger og de daglige politiske nyheder." hvor han planker historier fra politics1.com, politicalwire.com osv. (præcis som jeg gør her...). Det er bare rigtig fint.

Sådan ser Ronnie ud. Han kan godt li' amerikansk politik.

Men det er naturligvis rart at finde ligestillede der deler interessen for primærvalg, senatorer og kongresvalg i Indiana og APD er naturligvis røget på blogroll'en.

APD har dog flere fine nyskabelser, blandt andet "speech of the week" hvor de store taler (og Ahrnolds tale fra det republikanske konvent) bliver gengivet. Det er fint lige at kunne læse og høre f.eks. Barack Obamas " The Audacity of Hope" eller Lincolns "Gettysburg Adress" og mon ikke også Guvernør Mario Cuomos (D-NY) "A Tale of Two Cities" til konventet i 1984 finder vej til APD ellers kan man jo høre den her.

San Francisco, 16. juli 1984. Guvernør Mario Cuomo giver den største tale i amerikansk politisk historie.

Mario Cuomo: 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address

"Ten days ago, President Reagan admitted that although some people in this country seemed to be doing well nowadays, others were unhappy, even worried, about themselves, their families, and their futures. The President said that he didn't understand that fear. He said, "Why, this country is a shining city on a hill."

"Maybe, maybe, Mr. President, if you visited some more places; maybe if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds; maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel workers wonder why we subsidized foreign steel. Maybe -- Maybe, Mr. President, if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there; maybe, Mr. President, if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children because you said you needed the money for a tax break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use."

"Ever since Franklin Roosevelt lifted himself from his wheelchair to lift this nation from its knees -- wagon train after wagon train -- to new frontiers of education, housing, peace; the whole family aboard, constantly reaching out to extend and enlarge that family; lifting them up into the wagon on the way; blacks and Hispanics, and people of every ethnic group, and native Americans -- all those struggling to build their families and claim some small share of America."