NP: the root of, maybe, everything

[Otto]

That's all a load of bullshit!

Why not blaming the Germans for not going along!

Those neocons make me sick!

Is there an equivalent in English for the saying: "Die Ratten
verlassen das sinkende Schiff"?

Otto

2006/11/5, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>:
> "I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything."
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-frum/vanity-fairs-inve_b_33251.html
>