On Feb 17, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> ...Obama has a talent for eliciting intense emotion--an ability that
> can
> be dangerous in a politician. What more does he have to offer? That's
> a hard question to answer, and it makes the prospect of an Obama
> presidency quite worrisome. [to the Wall Street Journal, that is]
Stalin to Trotsky (at a CPSU Central Committee meeting): "Shut up. This isn't your Cirque Moderne [the Petrograd square where the Old Man had an Obama-like effect on the masses in 1917]."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos