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January 22, 2008
a return to the electronic world....
I finally got my computer working again after a hard drive crash. I can't complain too much cause I've had it since uni and in retrospect it's down some hard miles. I was hoping to come up with some decent humour in this post but I've lost the will to do so. And what would it be to so befoul my mood?...
a great movie. Strange, right?
But how else can you react to Bobby? A movie that takes you briefly into the lives of a group of people before they were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. And of course, it all ties in with Robert F. Kennedy's campaign and the night he was shot. The movie is interlaced with actual footage of Kennedy's speeches and even though it's obvious how it ends and that this was almost 40 years ago, you almost have a glimmer of hope that it might end differently.
Of course it doesn't end differently and the United States and the great freedom movement of the 1960's suffers for it. We saw LBJ stay on til '69 and Nixon take over the reigns of the country. It is really shocking when you hear some of RFK's speeches, and think of how the US and even the world would be different.
Instead we had a president who was impeached over the Watergate scandal. Fast forward to the year 2000 and in a moment of confusion the United States of America was hijacked by the good ole boy George W. Of alll voting Americans, 500,000 more chose Gore over Bush but alas, the US electoral system allowed the Bush reign to commence.
We are lucky that Al Gore was only 'killed' in his presidential race, for he continues to speek passinately about global warming - the topic of his famous documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner as well as an Academy Award winner and could have been the president of the USA.
It's a messy argument and I haven't really presented things as clearly as I woulda liked but the point I'm trying to make is that the US ended up with Nixon instead of RFK and now they've got George W. when they could've had an Oscar and Nobel Prize winner.....
....almost enough to make you cry.
For a mental exercise, try and think of how the world would be a different place if Al Gore had have been president when 9/11 happened? Don't stress out too much though cause there's nothing you can do to change the past....unless you've created a time machine.
Posted by Dr.Unk at January 22, 2008 7:45 AM
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