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Oct. 8th, 2007 11:37 amI've read many blogs on American politics over the past few years but never have I seen it boiled down so eloquently and perfectly than here:
The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.
On a similar note this quote from an Iraqi doctor beautifully sums up the Iraq occupation to date:
“When Saddam ruled Iraq, there was no light at the end of the tunnel, now, there is no tunnel.”
The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.
On a similar note this quote from an Iraqi doctor beautifully sums up the Iraq occupation to date:
“When Saddam ruled Iraq, there was no light at the end of the tunnel, now, there is no tunnel.”
