My work posts are beginning to relate more and more to wikipedia reading I've done. Every time I get bored and start thinking, I come up with weird thoughts. The first one was "What happens if you bite a vampire?" My manager goes, "Google it". I was like "I shall". I didn't find the answer, but I really enjoyed the wiki entry.
I wonder if Professor Sandra Silberstein thought about the lives lost by NOT going to war. Innocent people died on December 7, 1941 and more would have continued to die if we hadn't done anything. Some of them were military people who did sign up of their own accord, this is 100% true. Others, however, were military wives, people who just happened to live in Hawaii, etc. These people did not deserve to die and to not go to war would have been a travesty of the worst proportions.
University of Washington Professor and author Sandra Silberstein draws direct parallels between the language used by Roosevelt and Bush, highlighting a number of similarities between the Infamy Speech and Bush's presidential address of September 11.[14]
This I find to be sort of stupid considering that many presidents have pulled forth other presidents speeches to make a point. Franklin Delano himself purposely tried to reference the call to war from Wilson in WWI. This, however, was absolutely ok as he was a Democrat. I don't understand how there are double standards. I myself am mostly conservative, but refuse to side with a party or officially label myself because I want to leave room for growth and changing my mind. I think it's dumb that people rip apart people they don't agree with for things that someone they agree with has done and that's ok.
