Friday, October 26, 2012

Good Company?

"L'état, c'est moi."
— Louis XIV

"This nation. Me."
— Barack Obama, third presidential debate

"Okay, Okay. I'll give you the context. Obama was talking about how "when Tunisians began to protest, this nation, me, my administration, stood with them." Still. How many democratic leaders (de Gaulle excluded) would place the word "me" in such regal proximity to the word "nation"?"

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331681/obama-stoops-doesn-t-conquer-charles-krauthammer#

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