[lbo-talk] Bard on campaign

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 17:48:54 PST 2016


And Trump:

"Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!"

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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>
>
> --
> "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
> lytlað."
>

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