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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tell me this does not sum up the Obama campaign

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:01:28 AM EDT

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
Don Marquis
US humorist (1878 - 1937)

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:04:09 AM EDT

[#1]

More like: If the masses are content with pablum, why bother giving them steak?

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:07:49 AM EDT

[#2]

Cicero said it better:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:09:15 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
More like: If the masses are content with ~~pablum~~ SPAM, why bother giving them steak?

Fixed

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:18:06 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Cicero said it better:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

That is better for Obama, but not an explanation of his campaign. How can someone who says nothing, enthrall so many. That defies even government education!

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:21:51 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Cicero said it better:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.

That is better for Obama, but not an explanation of his campaign. How can someone who says nothing, enthrall so many. That defies even government education!

The Book of Revalation talks about such a feat.

Back to Cicero, if you think of "he" as referring to the Dem party as a whole it still works.

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:22:43 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
Don Marquis
US humorist (1878 - 1937)

I haven't heard it before, but I like it.

Thanks.

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:28:23 AM EDT

[#7]

tag

eta: That is spot on.

Posted: 6/4/2008 8:33:13 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
Don Marquis
US humorist (1878 - 1937)

It sums up every political campaign, especially the great race to preside over a nation of clowns. God knows the Republicans NEVER blow smoke up your ass and over simplify things.

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