Quote of the Day

[Mark Wright AIA]

That glorious dawn broke in our east four years ago, Praise God!

Mark


--- Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> "[W]hen a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not
> face men 
> of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is
> the fact 
> that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of
> comprehending 
> any save the most elemental--men whose whole thinking is done in
> terms of 
> emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot
> understand. 
> So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be
> lost... 
> [A]ll the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious
> and 
> mediocre--the man who can most 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."
> 
> H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.
> 
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