Yesterday I helped celebrate
Benjamin Franklin's birthday in Philadelphia. It was a genteelly respectful
affair, but if you're the kind of person of wouldn't mind having the
opportunity to give a lusty "Huzzah!" for old Ben, in fact three
"Huzzahs," mind you, then you can understand that there were
thrill-seekers like me lurking in the crowd at his grave site in Christ Church Burial Ground.
The affair involves some pomp at
luncheon: we gave the Benjamin Franklin Founder Bowl to former Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr..
Now, full disclosure, I voted for
President Obama a second time last November, so thrill-seeking wasn't my motive
in being eager to get a look at Huntsman.
Yet, I'm bound to say, the man
repeatedly gives the impression of being a decent human being who has informed
and reflective thoughts on the mission and values of America on the complex and
dangerous world stage….it seems he would not be comfortable wrapping the chains
of political dogma around his body, and dragging them around with loud clanking
noises…
That is to say, Huntsman obviously was
the odd man out in the Republican debates last year, and I think that's a profoundly
complimentary description. When it comes to self-serving bluster and being in thrall
to blindly destructive partisan aims, Huntsman apparently has much less to offer
than most of our current celebrity Republicans….
Let's not forget about him, at least
let's remember that Huntsman may have another point of view worth consideration….
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