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To: Guardian who wrote (29803)	11/15/2003 3:11:17 AM
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Political Insults & Slams Politicians It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt. - - - Thomas Paine (about John Adams) A nonentity with side whiskers. - - - Woodrow Wilson (about Chester A. Arthur) One could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole on the air. - - - George Orwell (about Stanley Baldwin) He has the lucidity which is the byproduct of a fundamentally sterile mind. - - - Aneurin Bevan (about Neville Chamberlain) Dangerous as an enemy, untrustworthy as a friend, but fatal as a colleague. - - - Sir Hercules Robinson (about Joseph Chamberlain) He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. - - - Alice Roosevelt Longworth (about Calvin Coolidge) How can they tell? - - - Dorothy Parker (hearing of Calvin Coolidge's death) He's the only man able to walk under a bed without hitting his head. - - - Walter Winchell (about Thomas E. Dewey) You really have to get to know him to dislike him. - - - James T. Patterson (about Thomas E. Dewey) He is just about the nastiest little man I've ever known. He struts sitting down. - - - Lillian Dykstra (about Thomas E. Dewey) Like the little man on top of the wedding cake. - - - Source questionable, either: Walter Winchell, Ethel Barrymore, or Grace Hodgson Flandrau (about Thomas E. Dewey, 1944) The Wizard of Ooze. - - - John F. Kennedy (about Everett Dirksen) Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday. - - - Harry S Truman (about Dwight D. Eisenhower) Oh, if I could piss the way he speaks! - - - Georges Clemenceau (about David Lloyd George) It was hard to listen to Goldwater and realize that a man could be half Jewish and yet sometimes appear twice as dense as the normal Gentile. - - - I. F. Stone (about Barry Goldwater, 1968) His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea. - - - William McAdoo (about Warren Harding) His writing is rumble and bumble, flap and doodle, balder and dash. - - - H. L. Mencken (about Warren Harding) He wouldn't commit himself to the time of day from a hatful of watches. - - - Westbrook Pegler (about Herbert Hoover) Such a little man could not have made so big a depression. - - - Norman Thomas (about Herbert Hoover) The hustler from Chicago. - - - George Bush (about Jesse Jackson, 1988) We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought. - - - Winston Churchill (about Ramsay MacDonald) He has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair. - - - Louise Lamprey (about President McKinley, 1897) The right honorable and learned gentleman has twice crossed the floor of this House, each time leaving behind a trail of slime. - - - David Lloyd George (about Sir John Simon) Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - - - Irving Layton (about Pierre Trudeau) To err is Truman. - - - A popular joke in 1946