Hahaha. Believe me, I don't claim to be either enlightened or particularly intelligent, but I will vote, that much I can say. These are very funny.
________________________________ From: turquoiseb <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 2:21 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] American Politics (was Re: Happy new year to everyone !!!) I'll respond to this one not because it's intelligent but because it provides an opportunity for humor... --- In [email protected], Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote: > > Now, given your insight, perhaps you'd like to comment on > the political climate and give this BS up for now. Lord > knows, you must have some valid "opinions" on US politics. With all due respect, commenting on American politics is, at this point, like trying to do "live" TV coverage of a corpse rotting. There is little to comment on except for the increasing stench. Re the candidates -- any of them, from any party -- I have but one comment, and that not my own: "His mere presence here is depriving some village of its idiot." - John Cleese Here are a few other people's ideas on the subject, since you seem in need of some: "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." - Georges Clemenceau "Suppose you were an idiot . . . And suppose you were a member of Congress . . . But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P. J. O'Rourke "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." H.L. Mencken "The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury." - Charlie Chaplin "I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." - Charlie Chaplin "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire "The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then it's you." - Rita Mae Brown "I never thought much of Pat Buchanan until I heard one of his speeches in the original German." - Molly Ivins "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography." - Paul Rodriguez "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein "Good Americans, when they die, go to Heaven. Very, very good Americans go to Paris." - Oscar Wilde "People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide
