Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 6:37am
Amazingly, it seems there is still the possibility of progressive movement in the world, and it can still include the United States. It's a bit of a shame that it has to be an end-run around those we should be trusting to lead us, but not surprising as to who is spear-heading the effort.
My favorite quote by Ms. Brown:
"Commandeering the role of government through civic action suddenly feels like a very empowering notion -- the alternative being to find oneself stranded in a flood waving a shirt from a rooftop."
Article.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#1re: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 7:39am
Beautiful.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 9:16amDiva, I think it's beautiful, too - and it gives me just a little feeling of hope.
#3re: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:10am
this is a link to the UN Millennium Project, devoted to ending hunger and poverty. dr. jeffrey sachs is the director. he is the world's foremost expert on poverty and sustainable development. he was the man that went to kenya w/ angelina jolie on the recent mtv special. it's a great site and there are many ways to be involved.
hunger and poverty can be wiped out in a generation if enough people care.
thanks for giving me a place to post this...
UN MILLENNIUM PROJECT
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#4re: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:19am
"A feeling of hope," DG, like we had on election night 1992, when so much seemed possible.
I think we'll be feeling a lot more of that soon. :-}
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#5re: Bill Clinton's Global Initiative Conference.
Posted: 9/22/05 at 10:36am
A weird reputational exchange has taken place between Clinton and President Bush. After so much dishonest reasoning it's the vaunted "CEO president" who begins to look like the callow, fumbling adolescent. And it's the sexually incontinent, burger-guzzling, late-night-gabbing Bubba who is emerging as a great CEO of America.
"We are so arrogant because we are obsessed with the present," he told his guests at the conference's end. "I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me. I just don't want anybody to die before their time anymore."
On Clinton's face these days is a look of wry, judicious knowingness. It's the look of political wisdom, and it imparted to his conference's departing crowd something like serenity.
(What a great bracing day-brightener of an article to start my Thursday! Thanks , DGrant!)
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