But the event was cancelled when her handlers feared that it would turn into an anti-war event. In other words, she didn't cancel the event because she disagreed with Langston Hughes' political beliefs.
Therefore, under his logic, he has no choice but to admit that
LAURA BUSH IS A COMMUNIST. Anything less would be HYPOCRISY.
Ask him.
-MR
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/5189592.htm?1cLaura Bush doth protest too much
By Jeff Guinn
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
Posted on Sat, Feb. 15, 2003
When the first lady announced a Feb. 12 White House symposium honoring poets Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, that trio of honorees included two avowed social radicals and one closet disdainer of government. Among the modern-day poets invited to be part of the program were Sam Hamill, an outspoken pacifist, and Galway Kinnell, whose résumé includes both a Pulitzer Prize and prominent 1960s and '70s opposition to U.S. war policies in Vietnam.
President George W. Bush is about to lead the nation into war with Iraq, though opinion polls indicate there's growing public opposition to such an act. In both modern and ancient history, there's a tradition of poets, playwrights and authors leading protests against war.
So anyone who's read much poetry or even a few history books should have known what was coming next. Hamill and Kinnell declined their invitations. Hamill organized an e-mail avalanche of anti-war poems, while Kinnell agreed to be part of an anti-war poetry reading in Vermont. Laura Bush abruptly postponed the Feb. 12 event at the White House, with her spokesman announcing that the first lady "believes it would be inappropriate to turn a literary event into a political forum."
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