> From: Doug Franklin > Bob W wrote: > > >> > I'm not sure how grown up they are, really. >> > >> > Labour MP Tony Banks once described Tory MP Terry Dicks as "living >> > proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to >> > Parliament". >> > >> > Churchill said Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing". >> > >> > Harold Wilson described Edward Heath as "a shiver looking for a spine >> > to run up". >> > >> > Clement Freud called Margaret Thatcher "Attila the Hen". >> > > And just how many US politicians could be accused of having a good > enough command of the English language and diplomacy to have made /any/ > of those statements?
One or two in the last hundred years or so ... Ann Richards (Texas Governor) said of George H.W. Bush, that "he was born with a silver foot in his mouth." Senator Everett Dirkson, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money." H.L. Mencken, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." Mark Twain, "There is no native criminal class except Congress" Will Rogers, "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" I know, the last three aren't politicians, but they did have a nice turn of a phrase. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
