''Team of Rivals" is also an America ''coming-of-age" saga. Lincoln, Seward, Chase et al. are sketched as being part of a ''restless generation," born when Founding Fathers occupied the White House and the Louisiana Purchase netted nearly 530 million new acres to be explored. The Western Expansion motto of this burgeoning generation, in fact, was cleverly captured in two lines of Stephen Vincent Benet's verse: ''The stream uncrossed, the promise still untried / The metal sleeping in the mountainside." None of the protagonists in ''Team of Rivals" hailed from the Deep South or Great Plains. _______________________________ From a review by Douglas Brinkley, 2005
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ReplyDelete"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie ..."
ReplyDeleteAs batty as that photo is, it doesn't really sum up Michelle, as Jon Stewart pointed out on one segment. Michelle may be many things, but "moonstruck" she is not. This gal knows what she wants and more or less how to get it, unlike Sister Sarah who she has now eclipsed. You don't hear much talk of Palin anymore.
Yeah, one way of getting what you want is to pay in advance for all the $30 "votes" on behalf of all of your would-be supporters. I give her (or her advisors) credit for that one, although she paid for a lot more votes than she received which is also interesting.
ReplyDeletePalin is still kinda hangin' around ....
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