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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

> "To what end will you broadcast your 'Audacity of Hope'?"
>
> (That's really what the last line means, close enough.) 
That's what it meant to me..   :-)



On 6/24/2009 4:33 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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
>>>      ...
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