On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7623771.stm
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Hagel--future Obama Cabinet member--a "top Republican??????"
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> "When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not
> face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing
> mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or
> even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole
> thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is
> dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate
> must either bark with the pack or be lost. [...] All the odds are on
> the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the
> man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a
> virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such
> men." - HL Mencken
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