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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (97002)	3/3/2005 7:45:10 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Let's have the full quote, eh? The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, 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.

To: Grainne who wrote (97002)	3/9/2005 4:46:28 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

at the moment? as in now??? hmmm... i don't quite agree, yet i do have to say that mencken was positively prescient when he wrote that....(around 1920 ) i think the 'moment' was much more contemporaneous.... (btw, i don't think that was particularly warm and 'feelish' of you to characterize someone [without benefit of historical perspective] to call (albeit using the words of mencken)....a moron.....seems like name calling to me :) imagine the foresight to predict the moronosity of the electorate and their leader FDR (so many times over!!) io.com The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists, "uplifters", social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham. But his life was not defined by negativity. He was positively enthusiastic about to the writings of Twain and Conrad, the music of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and the victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay.