Thursday, February 5, 2004 |
16:17 - This stuff works
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/20040205-1.html
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Also via Dean: it seems that some of the more illustrious inhabitants of the blog world are getting some real recognition. About the most impressive kind of recognition, at that. Says Bush:
Our people in uniform understand the high calling they have answered because they see the nation and the lives they are changing. A guardsman from Utah named Paul Holton has described seeing an Iraqi girl crying and decided then and there to help that child and others like her. By enlisting aid through the Internet, Chief Warrant Officer Holton had arranged the shipment of more than 1,600 aid packages from overseas. Here's how this man defines his own mission: "It is part of our heritage that the benefits of being free, enjoyed by all Americans, were set up by God, intended for all people. Bondage is not of God, and it is not right that any man should be in bondage at any time, in any way." Everyone one in this room can say amen to that.
That's Chief Wiggles he's talking about, there; the "aid packages" are thousands of toys donated by blog readers over the past few months.
Talk about grassroots participation. This may be the first time outside of Forrest Gump that I've seen a discrete piece of what for lack of a better term I'll call "energy" pass so visibly from a private individual up to a collection and distribution point, and then on upward through war and reconstruction until it's given public recognition from the President's own mouth. Truly remarkable.
And while there are those who still see blogging as being a solipsistic endeavor that's nowhere near as revolutionary as its practitioners tend to believe it is, I think we've got a pretty good bit of proof otherwise right here.
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