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Re: Dennis comments on Bush's mental state
Posted By: John R. Stewart, on host 87.218.53.181
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2007, at 04:53:28
In Reply To: The two-party system (was Re: Dennis Cucinich) posted by Faux Pas on Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at 11:53:56:

I don't think President Bush is crazy. I tend to believe in what H.L. Menken said in an article July 1920 in the Blatimore Sun; Here is a copy of that article: "The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small area, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre - the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected. the office represents, more and more closely the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

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