When I began this blog in 2001, I was appalled by President Bush's headlong rush to an illegal war (we were not in fact under attack). As time wore on and Bush began his assault on the Constitution and any people bold enough to criticize, I believed that "the republic is endangered more by actions of our own government than by those of any terrorist." With the election of a high-minded, compassionate, intelligent man like Barack Obama, my fears have ceased.
"Honor them with peace, not war"
United for Peace
Sunday, February 01, 2004
Well some may find it tacky, but I consider it splendid. I feel sure if I pass away during the current administration, my family will do the same thing for me, having now read about the idea.
To me this is no more tacky for a death notice than suggesting donations be made to the cancer society or any other charity, in fact rather less.
If anything is tacky, it is in the now conventional suggestion that anyone should give a memorial gift at all, not in the direction the donor is pointed.
Obviously the Bush gang is terrified by this movement, as the deceased's opinion carries rather more weight, being curiously similar to last wishes or a dying confession.
Copyright © 2001-03 Pam Shorey
(except the specific sources credited in quotes)
Getting the last word
Her brief paid death notice, published Dec. 30 in The New York Times, said she was 'dedicated to family, friends, learning, teaching and social justice.' In the last line, it instructed: 'In lieu of flowers, donations in her name may be made to any organization dedicated to the defeat of George W. Bush.'
...To some, using a death notice as a paid political advertisement seems to bring incivility to new heights. From his position as a Democratic political consultant, Hank Sheinkopf asserted that these notices were poor political propaganda and wouldn't cost the president one vote. What's more, he said: 'There's something over the top about that. It's not the nicest kind of behavior.'
But the families who placed the death notices say that politics was deeply personal to their loved ones, and that Mr. Bush's tenure, from the circumstances of his election to the loss of lives in Iraq and the so-far invisible weapons of mass destruction, inflamed their passion so much they wanted to send messages from the grave.
--Anemona Hartocollis, NY Times Coping: Partisan Words to Remember Them By
Well some may find it tacky, but I consider it splendid. I feel sure if I pass away during the current administration, my family will do the same thing for me, having now read about the idea.
To me this is no more tacky for a death notice than suggesting donations be made to the cancer society or any other charity, in fact rather less.
If anything is tacky, it is in the now conventional suggestion that anyone should give a memorial gift at all, not in the direction the donor is pointed.
Obviously the Bush gang is terrified by this movement, as the deceased's opinion carries rather more weight, being curiously similar to last wishes or a dying confession.
Palema
5:59 AM
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