still relevant

After writing about anger over a death, I went back to entries from the fall of 2005 to see what I had written about my uncle's death, because I remember feeling angry about that, too. As it happens, what I said in my post about him used melancholy, which was accurate as well. But while I was reviewing, I came across a couple of things that struck me as relevant to now. This is a quotation from Edward R Murrow (or at least the version of him portrayed in the movie "Good Night and Good Luck." "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility." Also, surprisingly, this, from George W Bush "That's what the American people expect their president to do - be a polite person." I didn't put any context around it, so I don't know what he was referring to. It would be nice to have a polite person as president, but that particular president started disastrous wars that are still going on, was probably the cause of the formation of Isis, and was a jerk in other ways. Polite, though (?)