Word: blessing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even Gore's note-perfect concession speech--brief, unbowed, ruefully funny and unabashedly patriotic--carried a dire subtext. The Vice President quoted Stephen Douglas' concession to Abraham Lincoln after the 1860 election: "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I'm with you, Mr. President, and God bless you." But when Douglas offered those uplifting words, the nation was weeks away from the Civil...
...events between Nov. 14 and Harris's certification Nov. 26 - wouldn't legally deprive Gore of his contest, but the voice of the highest court in the land might cut his political knees out from under him, if it rules promptly. A ruling for Gore would bless his hand counts and buy him another week at least. (Wild card: Rehnquist writes a remedy...
...Paul Simon sang.) Talk about uncertain hours. And yet, you gotta love it. Here's an election with everything America has to offer--choices, arguments, laughs, gaffs, screw-ups, recounts of recounts, old people with placards, chaos without penalty and--God bless 'em--lawyers. I love this country. Thanks to moments like this, I know it's there...
...with its own irony, and aging, if not always gracefully, at least honestly. Beautiful Day and When I Look at the World are Bono full-voice blasters, while the melancholic Kite and New York are about people who still haven't found what they're looking for. But God bless 'em, the members of U2 are still looking...
...Thank you, and God bless America...