Wednesday, March 14, 2012

BYE, BYE, BUSH

Part 1: For better or worse

Eight years ago, a person I argued politics with on a regular basis showed me an essay she'd written to express her delight that Bill Clinton utterly loathsome in her eyes - was being replaced by George Bush, a man she � seemed to think represented the best our country had to offer. She titled it "Feels like America Again," and she showed it to me because she had hopes of being a writer and wanted to know what I thought of her effort. Style, tone, clarity, zing level ... that sort of thing. She had no hope that I would agree with any of it. She just wanted to be told by someone other than family or friends that what she had written had been written well. …

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