Caroline Kennedy to endorse Obama

[Erika]

Tomorrow in the New York Times. She calls him inspirational.

His speech tonight showed the eloquence of JFK and the hopeful optimism of Reagan. He will probably be the next president.

[NuclearShadows]

Tomorrow in the New York Times. She calls him inspirational.

His speech tonight showed the eloquence of JFK and the hopeful optimism of Reagan. He will probably be the next president.

The Arts of misleading the People by Sounds
John Trenchard (Saturday, January 21, 1721)

……There must certainly be a vast fund of stupidity in human nature, else men would not be caught as they are, a thousand times over, by the same snare; and while they yet remember their past misfortunes, go on to court and encourage the causes to which they were owing, and which will again produce them. I will own, however, that government makes more fools, and more wise men, than nature makes…….

…..Yet even in countries where the highest liberty is allowed, and the greatest light shines, you generally find certain men, and bodies of men, set apart to mislead the multitude; who are ever abused with words, ever fond of the worst of things recommended by good names, and ever abhor the best things, and the most virtuous actions, disfigured by ill names. One of the great arts, therefore, of cheating men, is, to study the application and misapplication of sounds…..

[Bruce McAuley]

"…..Yet even in countries where the highest liberty is allowed, and the greatest light shines, you generally find certain men, and bodies of men, set apart to mislead the multitude;"
:cool:
And it works as well now as it did in 1721.
I don't think Obama will be President, though, much as I'd like it.

Bruce

[NuclearShadows]

I guess what comes up for me are old sayings like:

"If it sounds to good to be true than it probably is.."

"Talk is cheap."

None of us will really know if any of the promises they all make are true until it is too late to do anything about it...