Roaring 20's
Bush was the commencement speaker Friday at Concordia University, Wisconsin, a Lutheran University from which many graduates go on to become ministers.
Reporting on the speech yesterday for the NY Times, Elisabeth Bumiller placed a nice juxtaposition at the end of her article.
First, discussing the "compassionate conservatism" of the speech, Bumiller writes:
At the commencement, the president also called the graduates to a life of service. "America needs your efforts and energy in the fight against poverty and despair," he said. "A compassionate society does not look away from a man being dragged down by addiction, or a mother being abandoned by the father of the child, or boys and girls with no role models in life, who wonder if anyone cares about them."
America, Mr. Bush said, "rejects the ethic of sink or swim.''
''America rejects social Darwinism,'' he added, "because strength is not the same as worth."
Then she immediately proceeds to describe the earlier part of Bush's day:
Earlier in the day, Mr. Bush raised $2.2 million for the Republican Party at a lunch in Bridgeton, Mo., just outside St. Louis, that was held in a small car museum at the Hunter Engineering Company, a maker of automotive service equipment.
Speaking among six gleaming Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs from the 1920's and 1930's, Mr. Bush said he needed help in his campaign from the crowd of 90 people, who had paid $25,000 a couple or more to attend.
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