I hear you.

Yes, those with small or no souls are still among us, but if the world had never known your Dad and Uncle Jack, that group today would still be the majority. The cost of that gain was too high, but I sense that they knew they had to make their stand for if not they, who??

I was watching the convention that fateful night when Pegler’s venomous
spoutings bore fruit. Insanity, nothing less.

Today who can remember anything Pegler said or did, other than his victims?

Today and forevermore your Dad’s and Uncle Jack’s words and deeds still shine and their truth rings out. Their words also bore fruit, good lifegiving fruit. Every time you pass a person of color in the halls of Congress, business, the art and music world, academia, etc., you can mentally chalk up a win for your Dad.

My mother died of melanoma when I was ten years old. It is a different road we walk.

I wish the best of all gifts for you throughout your life and career. I feel certain that all your endeavors will produce Good.

. . . these pathetic words. . . please forgive,

Peggy Wingfield

It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
RFK
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I don’t know Westbrook Pegler, and I don’t have the heart to google for the information. I was so stunned when I read what you wrote last evening I couldn’t reply to you. I’d just returned from celebrating my father’s 80th birthday, a New England dinner we’d all made at his house, brothers and sisters bound together by the love for a man who has served his God – God or the Good, as he says – as a minister in Congregational churches which date back to the sixteen and 1700’s.

When I read what you wrote, that Sarah Palin quoted a man who called for your father’s death, I became overwhelmed with our lifetimes of confronting and my occasional running from these people who share streaks of cruelty.

What is unbelievable to me is that Sarah Palin has been videotaped sharing with Wasilla teens about having been prayed over by a witch hunter, Pastor Muthee, to help her become governor.

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According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.

Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.

After Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/…..o-wasilla/

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Sarah Palin expresses no concern that townspeople called for the stoning of this woman, no concern that she quoted a man in her acceptance speech who called for the death of your father.

Bobby, I worked with your brothers in 1979 and 80 to help elect your uncle. I treasure that time traveling around the country. In particular, I got to know Michael, and in knowing Michael I felt I got to know your father. I am crying as I write this. We don’t seem to have won.

Except that there is this guy named Barack.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

http://act.credoaction.com/cam…..=confemail

Please click the link, consider what you read there, and sign the petition if you choose (there is a box for your individual message).

http://act..credoaction.com/ca…..8;rc=paste

Thanks.

Fixed the dead link the post also

It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
RFK

These people are in shock. They don’t understand the Wall Street melt-down – they just know it’s bad – and they seem to feel that they, somehow, are going to pay for this disaster, too. A lot of people around these parts have a growing resentment for Washington’s Policy of “When Government fucks-up, We Pay.”

The talk was all doom and gloom, with almost no cheering for teams going on. It’s been about six months since I’ve visited this side of town, and I was surprised at the number of newly boarded-up businesses and over-grown lots. The local economy here has visibly contracted.

More dread than hope in their eyes, voices, and body language, too. These folks are ‘all worn out’ and don’t know what they’re going to do if they get hit with another set-back – if the car breaks down, or if they get sick and miss work, or if any number of life’s little detours shows up – there is no safety for them, and they are acutely aware of it.

Also, I heard several people say, “She’s a gimmick,” when Sarah Palin’s name came up.