Politics | 06/04/2008 9:35 am

At This Historic Moment ... A wOw Reader Quote That Says It All

Comment to Women on the Web Forum: Hillary Announcement Watch at wowOwow on June 3

Frank Peterson - 6/3/2008 5:09 PM

Stop a moment and think about this: a black man in the White House. When I voted for John Kennedy in my first vote for the presidency, the thought of a woman in the White House was so far in the future that few thought about it or even let the possibility into the mind. The same thing about a black man in the White House — unthinkable. Now, 40-plus years later we have both. I find that amazing and incredible and I’m so happy I lived to see this day. I don’t know about the rest of you but that makes my century. That gives me hope, finally, after 40 years of incompetents and snake-oil salesmen in the White House, that the impossible is coming true. That is so incredible that I am stunned and elated by it all. Finally.

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Oooo, Deni! Whoa! YOu got me going with that one. lolol

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 1:00 pm

LOL! Then my life has meaning.

By Deni G on 06/04/2008 1:05 pm

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Frank - I sure hope your dancing shoes are comfy… Your dance-card will be filled very quickly! ;-)

By Christina on 06/04/2008 12:47 pm

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Christina;Oh my yes they are—lotta practice over the years:-)

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 12:58 pm

Oh, fun! Frank, May I cut in on the dance here? I’d love to not only dance down the hall, but across these rooms. I add my adulation to you— a fine, wise, sensible, and loving man. Thank you for contributing to our pages. You’ve made it something I HAVE to do when I first come into the office in a day—-check what is on WOW, and “Has Frank had anything to say on that?” Continue on in great health, Frank!

By J Boylynn on 06/04/2008 3:01 pm

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Ms Boylynn: Indeed you may, my pleasure :-) An thank you so much —those are fine lovely words—I’m not sure I deserve all this praise. :-)

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 3:35 pm

Wonderful Frank! Even so, when we finish dancing, we will have to work to make sure that the election is not stolen from us. Too many states have those dubious voting machines that can be manipulated and reprogrammed. See http://www.wheresthepaper.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwnJqLLgK8

By Elizabeth Bennett on 06/04/2008 12:50 pm

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Elizabeth; yep—those electronic machines are so scary—without a paper trail I don’t trust them on iota. Too much leeway for manipulation, to put it mildly. I’ve followed articles on those from a long time now an we need a law passed outlawing them in every election and that includes dog-catcher in Podunk, USAThe Dude is watching closely—and btw Save a dance for me will ya :-)

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 12:55 pm

and without the dubious voting machines come the sexism…no credit if your husband went before you. frank, you are a great person. but this site is for women on the web. the women here have never had a sexist determination go in their direction. frank, you are still great, but you lack the bona fides of our experience.

By mary lou s on 06/04/2008 7:50 pm

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And Mary Lou, I question if perhaps our negative experience and the discrimination we have endured is all we will be left with if women section themselves off tethered and bound together with those awful experiences as the glue. This is not the way to counter what has been done. Scream at me if you like. I feel my Renata gene activated and I didn’t know I had one. :)

By T S on 06/05/2008 3:45 pm

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Who peed in your Cheerios, Mary Lou? Frank is the kind of man who stands linked arm-in-arm with women, and it takes men who are willing to see both sides to advance the cause. Your comment seems to come from some deep-seated sense of entitlement to void the First Amendment on a site you have no more ownership of than Frank does. Hmmm….

By Lorraine Bates on 06/09/2008 5:21 pm

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Turn it ALLLLLL the way up! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk

By To the beach ~~~ on 06/04/2008 12:52 pm

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On another post I quoted Lincoln’s first Inaugural speech and the phrase that came to me when Anne B spoke of our better selves; Lincoln used these words in an appeal to the country to stay together: and he talked to them of the “better angels of our nature” and a time to time be friends again. Those words are so applicable now. We need to look to those angels in out souls and begin to heal this country. I hope you don’t mind me saying this but you all fill my heart and I love you for it.

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 1:06 pm

Here’s Lincoln’s quote: I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

By Frank Peterson on 06/04/2008 1:10 pm

Frank, I for one am proud to give you honorary ovaries. You’re a keeper here!

By Lorraine Bates on 06/04/2008 1:44 pm