Wow. Talk about a blast from the past. I have to confess my first reaction ( besides 'Is he still alive ?' ) is to remember when I found political hyperbole more attractive than I do now. I was 25 when McGovern mattered. I voted for him, of course, but mostly because I would have voted for the devil himself before voting for Richard Nixon. And because I was voting an absentee ballot from SEasia and was in an out of Laos where we were dumping more bombs than we did on Germany in WWII and Cambodia where Nixon's policies were contributing to the triumph of evil...
I guess am struck by how little the rhetoric of that period seems applicable to our current situation. I'll buy bone-headed but criminal and impeachable ... I think in claiming Nixon was less impeachable George is forgetting a lot of the history of his own greatest moments ... or maybe just wants to hear the cheers one more time ...
Oh heck, maybe I'm just getting old ... or growing up.
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>Sheesh, it's about time. Nothing will happen though with less than a year to go.
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.
