Comments on: Happy Fourth of July http://surfingthetao.com/2007/07/04/happy-fourth-of-july/ Striving to increase awareness of our spiritual natures as well as the news, technologies and agendas in our world which influence them. Fri, 18 May 2012 06:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: cadeveo http://surfingthetao.com/2007/07/04/happy-fourth-of-july/comment-page-1/#comment-152 cadeveo Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:25:30 +0000 http://surfingthetao.com/2007/07/04/happy-fourth-of-july/#comment-152 Great quotes, Angela. They're great seeds for individuals to investigate further into history and the political intrigues of the revolutionary era. These alone are far more insightful and far more thought-provoking than the characterizations of these figures most students get in their history books in the U.S. That being said, each of those famous early leaders is a very mixed bag, in terms of the actions and decisions they made in their life-times; yet, for all that, there doesn't seem to be much comparison between Franklin and Washington, Jackson, etc. and any of the presidents we've had (their PR and hagiographies be damned) in the past forty four years. peace, cadeveo Great quotes, Angela. They’re great seeds for individuals to investigate further into history and the political intrigues of the revolutionary era. These alone are far more insightful and far more thought-provoking than the characterizations of these figures most students get in their history books in the U.S. That being said, each of those famous early leaders is a very mixed bag, in terms of the actions and decisions they made in their life-times; yet, for all that, there doesn’t seem to be much comparison between Franklin and Washington, Jackson, etc. and any of the presidents we’ve had (their PR and hagiographies be damned) in the past forty four years.

peace,

cadeveo

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