> In 1555, Nostradamus wrote:
>
> "Come the millennium, month 12,
> In the home of greatest power,
> The village idiot will come forth
> To be acclaimed the leader."
>
> anyone know if N really said this? his stuff is prob on line.
> haven't had a chance to look it up. still, i thought this was too
> funny not to pass on, even if it isn't accurate. particularly since i
> don't watch much teevee, untill the election fiasco, so these past
> couple of weeks have been the first time i got a load of the village
> idiot. ugh.
It's too good to be true, and apparently isn't. I'm appending something somebody forwarded to me.
Best, Peter
The Net has been a good friend to half-truths this campaign season: President Clinton was planning to run for the Senate, Dick Cheney was going to resign from the Republican ticket in October, George W. Bush was arrested for drunken driving. (OK, some rumors turn out to be true.) So perhaps it is only fitting that, now that it's all over, Nostradamus is finally making his entrance into the Election 2000 rumor mill. An e-mail currently making its way around the Web claims that the 16th century French "seer" penned this little stanza in 1555.
Come the millennium, month twelve,
In the home of greatest power,
The village idiot will come forth
To be acclaimed the leader.
Partisan smack? Yes. But Nostradamus? A quick scan of Nostradamus' prophecies online <http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/titan.htm> shows that this little ditty is bogus -- though a loose interpretation of the N-man's notoriously cryptic prose has some believers claiming Nostradamus did indeed predict the rise of President-elect W. and some of the electoral madness that ensued in Florida.
The following year revealed by a flood,
Two leaders elected, the first will not hold on
For one of them refuge in fleeing shadows,
The victim plundered who maintained the first.
Of course, some Democrats prefer this selection to show that perhaps the Frenchman did indeed foresee the Bush victory:
To an old leader will be born an idiot heir,
weak both in knowledge and in war.