I liked this detail from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’s address to the House yesterday, as he moved through a catalogue of American lives: “We are young. We are older.” “Older” — not “old.”
You can watch at C-SPAN. The catalogue of lives begins at 9:14. And an alphabetical catalogue of Democratic values begins at
13:23. It’s quite something.
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I understand Jeffries did that speech (at about 1:00 a.m.) without a script or teleprompter. I think he had some notes, or at least he seemed to glance down a couple times. I was watching it live. Note: he didn't mention it in his brief origin story, but his undergrad degree is from SUNY-Binghamton, now called Binghamton University.
ReplyDeleteI confess I turned the television off just after McCarthy started his speech, so I missed hearing when he claimed he would stop "woke" education.
Maybe I’m too hopeful, but I’m reminded of hearing Barack Obama speak when he was running for Senate in 2004. I think Hakeem Jeffries will be taking the Democratic Party and the country to a good future.
ReplyDelete"Older", yes--I'm in.
ReplyDeleteI think of the A. A. Milne poetry books When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.
Next up: Then We Grew Older.
I like the touch of melancholy humor in “then we grew older.”
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