> >"Like Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama challenges America
> >to rise up, to do what so many of us long to do: to
> >summon 'the better angels of our nature.' "
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> I'll bet Wenner only knows that quote because it was in Apocalypse Now.
I bet he *doesn't* know the quote, where the better angels appear as subject rather than object. (Okay, okay, it's passive voice, but you know what I mean.)