Jim Starlin Quotes
I was just as crazy as everybody else post-Watergate, post-Vietnam.
Starlin, Jim. The Art of Jim Starlin: A Life in Words and Pictures. IDW Publishing, 2010.
In 1921 when Harding took office, the nation was in the midst of a major depression which was to get worse before it got better.
In a democracy, some politicians come to power in good or average times. Others, come to power with the nation in extremis. Churchill. Privately confided to a friend that he was not exactly happy. However, he had served as Prime Minister before and under the even more difficult conditions of WWII. In American, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama all came to power when the nation was in great difficulty. In Lincoln’s case, there was secession and rebellion. With FDR it was the Great Depression. In Obama’s case, there were two wars and the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, yet all 3 men did not seem to have Churchill’s misgivings.
Ford went on to itemize some of the major problems then facing the nation. This is one of the very few times that an American President was so candid and did not try to minimize the extent of the difficulties. This might have been the result of Ford’s character which tended to be very straightforward and without guile. At the same time, the problems were not the result of his policies but those of Richard M. Nixon who had been forced to resign under disgrace and had few followers who would be insulted.
He was of course not the President then. But the stands that politicians took with respect to the rebellion of the South often determined their political futures. See {640752} for another future President’s quotation on the subject.
Huntington was not a great enthuiast about democracy--expecially activiist and otehr forms of direct democracy. Since the origin of democracy there has been a constant debate over the possiblity of an "degree of democracy".
James P. Starlin is an American comics artist and writer. Beginning his career in the early 1970s, he is best known for space opera stories; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters Thanos, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora and Shang-Chi. Later, for DC Comics, he drew many of their iconic characters, especially Darkseid and other characters from Jack Kirby's Fourth World. For Epic Illustrated, he created his own character, Dreadstar.
