Posted by
JTD on Monday, October 06, 2008 9:21:09 PM
Can you believe it? I quote directly from the New York Times:
"Where is it written that only senators are qualified to become President?.....Where is it written that governors and mayors. . . .are too local, too provincial?. . . Presidential candidates have always chosen their running mates for reasons of practical demography, not idealized democracy. . . .What a splendid system, we say to ourselves, that takes little-known men, tests them in high office and permits them to grow into statesmen...Why shouldn't a little-known woman have the same opportunity to grow?"
Oh wait, that's the New York Times endorsing Geraldine Ferraro on July 3, 1984. Hmmmm, sound like the Old Gray Lady has been a tad hypocritical lately, don't it?
THE MAELSTROM QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"If one wishes to foretell the future of a society, one should visit its public school classrooms to see what is happening now.
William A. Henry III, "In Defense of Elitism" DoubleDay 1994
If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what will.
The Maelstrom