[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tom Engelhardt: Charisma and the Imperial Presidency

[C. G. Estabrook]

Wayne's quoting Cicero's first speech against Catiline, from 63 BCE, but it's 
discouragingly apropos it is for our current Chief Magistrate:

    "For how long will that madness of yours mock us?

    "To what end will you broadcast your 'Audacity of Hope'?"

(That's really what the last line means, close enough.)

These are lines two and three of what is technically an "ascending tricolon" -- 
a device Lincoln liked, e.g., "We cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we 
cannot hallow..." (Gettysburg Address); and "with malice toward none, with 
charity toward all, with firmness in the right..." (Second Inaugural Address).


E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?
> 
> quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?
> 
> "I  act a bit" audacia, indeed.
> 
> 
> On 6/24/2009 3:32 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>
>>     Depressing.
>>      --Jenifer
>>
>>     *Obama Looses the Manhunters*
>>     *Charisma and the Imperial Presidency*
>>     By Tom Engelhardt
>>      ...