working for Boeing

[Kent Mueller]

The greatest Adlai Stevenson quote comes from when a fawning reporter
gushed, "You have the vote of every thinking American." To which Adlai
replied,"Thank you, unfortunately I need a majority." It was one of the
factors that painted him as an elitist, even though it was very true.

This November I think I'll vote for the radical wing of Skull and Bones,
versus the conservative wing. If every potential third-party voter takes
this view, we might forestall the inevitable.

Kent Mueller


> From: joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:44:29 -0400
> To: Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>, <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: working for Boeing
> 
> on 7/5/04 6:46 PM, Mike Weaver at mikeweaver at gn.apc.org wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> I particularly enjoyed the reference to the optimist who jumped off the
>>> Empire State Building. As he passed the twentieth floor, he yelled "So far,
>>> so good!"
>>> 
>>> Does this joke pop up anywhere else?
>> Hey Joe, not sure where is the ref you mention, but see here
>> 
>> http://home.att.net/~jrhsc/ad.html
>> 
> It's in the Boeing article which was apparently written in 1960, or at least
> internally published then. What was the date on the Stevenson quote, and was
> there a pre-existing joke to which he or a speech-writer was referring?
> 
> Thanks for the Stevenson link. Much good stuff there. My mother once said
> that Adlai Stevenson was the smartest man who never became President of the
> United States. Thank whatever you believe in that when the stakes were
> really high he lost to a decent adult such as Eisenhower; and not a
> worthless entitled Fauntleroy like Dubya, or Al Gore.
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that
>> sometimes he has to eat them.
>> Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The contest with tyranny is not a hundred-yard dash -
>> It is a test of endurance.
>> 
>> 
>> If the Republicans stop telling lies about us, we will stop
>> telling the truth about them.
>> 
>> I have finally figured out what the Republican orators mean
>> by what they call "moderate progressivism."  All they mean is:
>> "Don't just do something, Stand there."
>> 
>> The Republicans have a "me too" candidate running on a "yes but"
>> platform, advised by a "has been" staff.
>> 
>> 
>> Our mission is the prevention, not just the survival, of
>> a major war... There are no Gibraltars, no fortresses
>> impregnable to death or ideas any more.
>> 
>> 
>> Most of us favor free enterprise for business. Let us
>> also favor free enterprise for the mind.
>> Adlai Stevenson, 8-27-52
>> 
>> My definition of a free society is a society where it
>> is safe to be unpopular.
>> Adlai Stevenson, 1952
> 
>> 
>> If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free
>> to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free
>> mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a
>> ten-foot chain.
>> Adlai Stevenson
>> Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
>> October 8, 1952
>> 
>> 
>> A free society means a society based on free competition and
>> there is no more important competition than competition
>> in ideas, competition in opinion. This form of competition
>> is essential to the preservation of a free press.
> 
>> 
>> The struggle between faith and fear will decide the
>> destiny of our nation.
>> 
> And my personal favorite of the lot:
> 
>> 
>> It is not possible for this nation to be at once
>> politically internationalist and economically
>> isolationist.  This is just as insane as asking one
>> Siamese twin to high dive while the other plays
>> the piano.
>> Adlai Stevenson, 1952
>> 
> Peace,
> Joe
> 
> 
> 
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