"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, September 03, 2006
"A further interesting historical parallel is to compare this to the way Franklin Roosevelt handled similar issues a few years earlier. While campaigning in 1944, Republicans were acting pretty much like Democrats are acting today: whiny, spoiled, caterwauling brats, preaching gloom and doom and defeat and failure, some even shrieking "it's Roosevelt's war!" In response, Roosevelt hit the campaign trail and fought back, and Republicans were (rightly) spanked by voters for their juvenile behavior. [ From today's Deja Vu all over again file. -ed. ] "