[lbo-talk] Bard on campaign

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 17:46:10 PST 2016


Better for Hillary:

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:


> The presidential campaign has now reached a point where Shakespeare has
> quite a bit to say about it, so off the top of my head I came up with some
> pertinent comments
> starting with the most obvious:
>
> Donald Trumpe-l'oeil; "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
> signifying nothing" (Macbeth)
>
> Hillary (née Rodham) Clinton; "a scurvy politician" (King Lear)
>
> Dr. Jill Stein; "a pox on both your Houses" (Romeo and Juliet)
>
> Bernie Sanders; "ambition should be made of sterner stuff" (Julius Caesar)
>
> Marco Rubio: "A fool! A motley fool!" (As You Like It)
>
> Ted Cruz; "stand up for bastards!" (King Lear)
>
> John Kasich; "nothing can be made out of nothing" (King Lear)
>
> Dr. Ben Carson; "honor is not a surgeon" (one of the Falstaff plays)
>
> last, and by far least,
>
> Lyndon (aka Lin Marcus) Larouche; "there are things in heaven and earth
> undreamt of in your philosophy" (Hamlet)
>
>
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a
> apporté."
>
> Bardo Thodol
>
>
>
>
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