Meet Roxanne Walker…The South Carolina Broadcasters Association named Roxanne Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. She has been honored for her political opinion commentary by the Greenville Chapter of Women in Communications.
Roxanne resides in Taylors, SC with her husband Alan and the best dog in the world Allie.
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What Americans Really Think of Bush
Twice a year, pollsters for the Pew Research Center ask Americans to say the "one word that best describes" their "impression of George W. Bush." As late as February 2005, the top two volunteered responses were "honest" and "good." The new top two: "incompetent" and "arrogant."
"Honest" has fallen to No. 3. Rounding out the top 10: "good," "idiot," "integrity," "leader," "strong," "stupid" and "ignorant." "Ass" checks in at No. 13, "president" sits at No. 18, and "unconfident" brings up the rear at No. 32.
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Mourning Molly Ivins
My heart aches today because another one of my liberal heroes is gone. Molly Ivins died yesterday of breast cancer, she was 62 years young. My only comfort is that she joins her good friend and fellow wise cracking liberal firebrand Ann Richards in the great beyond and boy will those ladies raise the roof on that place! Ivins was my mentor in many ways, she was loud and profane, and she didn’t fit into polite society. She achieved great success but she messed up too. She had a brief but less than happy tenure as an editor at the New York Times but found her greatest happiness working in her home state of Texas, writing about that state’s very unique legislature and about George W. Bush and his family. Her insight into our current President and her ability to interpret his bullshit in my opinion is masterful.
The Birth of Open Forum-Turn off the TV-Get off the Couch!
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” Dwight Eisenhower- 1954 Bob Herbert, an editorial writer for the New York Times has been inside my head again this week. He wrote a wonderful editorial last week using the aforementioned quote which echoed an idea that I’ve been mulling over for years now…pretty much since George W. first took office. I’ve grown so disgusted with the state of politics and how marginalized real people have become by the process that I’ve been trying to come up with ways that regular people could be part of the process and affect real change. Bob Herbert of course put his thoughts into words so much better than I could. “There’s a hole in the American system where the leadership used to be. The country that led the miraculous rebuilding effort in the aftermath of World War II can’t even build an adequate system of levees on its own Gulf Coast. The most effective answer to this leadership vacuum would be a new era of political activism by ordinary citizens. The biggest, most far-reaching changes of the past century-the labor movement, the civil rights movement-were not primarily the result of elective politics, but rather the hard work of committed, citizen-activists fed up with the status quo. It’s time for thoughtful citizens to turn off their TVs and step into the public arena. Protest. Attend meetings. Circulate petitions. Run for office. I suspect the public right now is way ahead of the politicians when it comes to ideas about creating a more peaceful, more equitable, more intelligent society.”