http://www.westkypolitics.org/news.php?NewsSectionId=15 Bondare 3.0 RSSBuilder 2010-09-03T16:40:29Z Editor, WKY Journal of Politics & Issues editor@westkypolitics.org http://host1.bondware.com/~WestkyPolitics/ Copyright 2009 West Kentucky Politics & Issues Inc. All Rights Reserved http://www.westkypolitics.org/news.php?viewStory=1565 2010-08-12T18:47:22Z 2010-08-12T18:47:22Z Mary Potter http://www.westkypolitics.org/news.php?viewStory=1508 2010-07-05T19:06:56Z 2010-07-05T19:06:56Z <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Editor's Note: Brother Aaron Dowdy of the Clinton First United Methodist Church asked futurist Ivan Potter to share his thoughts on America, past, present and future on the 4th of July. Here is the transcript of what he said. <br /></span></strong></span></em><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: small;">"...We have, since day one of our birth, been &ldquo;the beacon of light" in a world clouded with darkness and the&nbsp;shadows of slavery, hunger, ignorance, war, and man&rsquo;s general cruelty &nbsp;to man.</span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">However, somewhere in the hope of the 1980s we, as Americans, lost our way.</span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">No, let me be brutally honest. </span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span></strong></div> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">My generation of baby boomers who voiced a new idea of change with our government&rsquo;s polices in the 1960&rsquo;s and 1970&rsquo;s lost our way...."</span></strong></div> Ivan Potter