The governor of New York State (my state), Eliot Spitzer, yesterday made a speech during the offical commemoration of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, in Lower Manhattan. I heard his speech on the day, and immediately pushed it out of my mind and focused on other things, but I was reminded of it today by a post at another blog. Searching for the official text, I found it to be almost entirely unavailable, except for some quotes, ironically or appropriately enough, in China’s People’s Daily Online .

These words, there quoted, were spoken by him, as I recall, at the very beginning of his oration:

“We stand on this terrible threshold remembering all that happened. We feel today as we felt then, that we belong to one another, not because we are inhabitants of the same city or same country but because we are all part of the same human story, part of one community of our fellow human beings,” Spitzer said.

Now, I think I’m a pretty non-violent chap, as crazy right-wingers go. But if I had been present on the dais when Governor Eliot Spitzer said those words, I do believe (or at the least I firmly hope) that I would have had the presence of mind to drag him from the podium and beat the bastard to a bloody pulp.

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