NP: the root of, maybe, everything

[bekah]

The rats abandon a sinking ship?

Bekah

At 6:10 AM +0100 11/5/06, Otto wrote:
>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