Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention."
[Shrub Flubs His Dub, The Nation, June 18, 2001]
Tags: humor politics elections george-w-bush texas presidents
The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God (though not Jesus), glorify America's heroes and history,quote its sacred texts (the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), and perform the transubstantiation of pluribus unum.
Jonathan HaidtTags: politics religion psychology presidents civil
(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?
E.A. BucchianeriTags: humor money art funny mystery george-washington sarcastic-quotes sad-but-true presidents portrait da-vinci masterpiece gadfly artwork mona-lisa ugly-art
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.
Gerald R. FordTags: politics presidents
[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.
Jane MayerTags: politics government observation participation barack-obama surrealism presidents david-maraniss
We owe Clint Eastwood a debt of thanks. Not only because it was truly a hilarious twelve minutes of improvised "awesome" in a week of scripted "blah".
But because it advanced our understanding.
This president has issues, and there are very legitimate debates about his policies and actions, and successes and or failures as president - I mean, tune in next week. But I could never wrap my head around why the world, and the president republicans describe, bears so little resemblance to the world and the president that I experience. And now I know why :
There is a president Obama that only republicans can see
Tags: politics republicans presidents washington-dc-politics current-events tea-party clint-eastwood tea-party-movement
I find as I grow older, I love those most, whom I loved first.
Thomas JeffersonTags: love lawyers jefferson presidents th
Desperate people are dangerous people.
Bob RitterTags: presidents assessments assassination-plot dangerousness psychological-profile secret-service
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