>>The Audacity of Hope pales in the light of true audacity. I remain in awe of Bill Clinton. As my first wife used to say, "The most important thing is sincerity ... if you can fake that, you've got it all."
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>Did you think it was a good speech? I have it recorded but haven't watched it yet.
It was excellent and exceeded all expectations of how far he would go lauding Obama's fitness to be President.
As I said, audacity at the world-class level is an awesome thing to witness. He doesn't mean a word of it, and between now and the election he will be a passive aggressive torpedo, but in the spot-light he piled it on like Professor Harold Hill.
Helluva a beat and you can dance to it. I'd give it a 10.
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.
