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Thanks Peter,
I feel the glow just reading this.
Tru
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> ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
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> SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008 - 7PM
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> LUSSIER COMMUNITY EDUCATION CENTER
> 55 S. GAMMON RD.
> MADISON, WI 53717
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> AAM MEMBERSHIP - $25!!!!
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> MAIL YOUR CHECK TO AAM, P. O. Box 1016, MADISON, WI 53701
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> Garrison Keillor: Let's take some time and savor this moment
> GARRISON KEILLOR, Star Tribune
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> Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of
> quiet exultation. It isn't gloating, it's satisfaction at a job well
> done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a
> flashing grin and a buoyancy that comes from working out in the gym
> every morning. He spoke in a genuine voice, not senatorial at all.
> He relished campaigning. He accepted adulation gracefully. He
> brandished his sword against his opponents without mocking or
> belittling them. He was elegant, unaffected, utterly American, and
> now (Wow) suddenly America is cool. Chicago is cool. Chicago!!!
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> We threw the dice and we won the jackpot and elected a black guy
> with a Harvard degree, the middle name Hussein and a sense of humor
> -- he said, "I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've
> got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher." The French junior
> minister for human rights said, "On this morning, we all want to be
> American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our
> eyes." When was the last time you heard someone from France say they
> wanted to be American and take a bite of something of ours? Ponder
> that for a moment.
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> The world expects us to elect pompous yahoos and instead we have us
> a 47-year-old prince from the prairie who cheerfully ran the race,
> and when his opponents threw sand at him, he just smiled back. He'll
> be the first president in history to look really good making a jump
> shot. He loves his classy wife and his sweet little daughters. He
> looks good in the kitchen. He can cook Indian or Chinese but for his
> girls he will do mac and cheese. At the same time, he knows pop
> music, American lit and constitutional law. I just can't imagine
> anybody cooler. Look at a photo of the latest pooh-bah conference --
> the hausfrau Merkel, the big glum Scotsman, that goofball
> Berlusconi, Putin with his B-movie bad-boy scowl, and Sarkozy, who
> looks like a district manager for Avis -- you put Barack in that
> bunch and he will shine.
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> It feels good to be cool and all of us can share in that, even sour
> old right-wingers and embittered blottoheads. Next time you fly to
> Heathrow and hand your passport to the man with the badge, he's
> going to see "United States of America" and look up and grin. Even
> if you worship in the church of Fox, everyone you meet overseas is
> going to ask you about Obama and you may as well say you voted for
> him because, my friends, he is your line of credit over there. No
> need anymore to try to look Canadian.
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> And the coolest thing about him is the fact that back in the early
> '90s, given a book contract after the hoo-ha about his becoming the
> First Black Editor of The Harvard Law Review (FBEHLR), instead of
> writing the basic exploitation book he could've written, he put his
> head down and worked hard for a few years and wrote a good book, an
> honest one, which, since his rise in politics, has earned the Obamas
> enough to buy a very nice house and put money in the bank. A
> successful American entrepreneur.
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> The last American president to write a book all by his lonesome
> self, I believe, was Theodore Roosevelt, who, on graduation from
> Harvard, wrote "The Naval War of 1812," and in my humble opinion,
> Obama's is the better book for the general reader, but you be the
> judge.
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> Our hero who galloped to victory has inherited a gigantic mess. The
> country is sunk in debt. The Treasury announced it must borrow $550
> billion to get the government through the fourth quarter, more than
> the entire deficit for 2008, so he will have to raise taxes and not
> only on bankers and lumber barons. His promise never to raise the
> retirement age is not a good idea. Whatever he promised the Iowa
> farmers about subsidizing ethanol is best forgotten at this point.
> We may not be getting our National Health Service cards anytime
> soon. And so on and so on.
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> So enjoy the afterglow of the election awhile longer. We all walk
> taller this fall. People in Copenhagen and Stockholm are sending
> congratulatory e-mails -- imagine! We are being admired by Danes and
> Swedes! And Chicago becomes The First City. Step aside, San
> Francisco. Shut up, New York. The Midwest is cool now. The mind
> reels. Have a good day.
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> Garrison Keillor's column is distributed by Tribune Media Services.
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