>Well it's know as "one off the wrist" here! :-)
I didn't mean to toss that off lightly.
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>>I empathize totally with his weaknesses but he chose to seek that position and part of the deal is a standard of behavior.
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>Tell that to the French presidents.
But Monsieur, this is indeed
comme il faut for that job.
'The French don't care what they do, actually, as long as they pronounce it properly.' <g>
Warren G Harding and JFK aside, this is the Oval Office that once served Richard Nixon and James Earl Carter !
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.