Speeches

[avram]

I watched the first half of Zell Miller’s speech at the GOP convention before I couldn’t take anymore, and not just because the compression of the video stream made it seem like the turncoat was being applauded by an army of giant alien insects. Then, minutes ago at the pizza parlor, I heard a bit of an old speech by some al Qaeda bigwig, and I wondered: Is someone else’s rousing rhetoric always creepy?

King’s “I have a dream” speech — surely one of the most stirring pieces of political rhetoric in the modern English language — must sound like a nightmare to a racial separatist. I guess Objectivists and anarchists must find Kennedy’s “Ask not” inaugural address pretty creepy.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

I guess Zell Miller found his natural audience. In reply to the JFK quote, libertarians tend to cite a similar remark from Benito Mussolini: "Not society for the individual, but the individual for society--that is the essence of fascism."

[avram]

Which just shows you what’s wrong with most of the folks who call themselves libertarians.