Posted by Sigismund on July 7, 2007, at 21:36:20
In reply to Re: Did Oscar Wilde give decadence a good name? » zeugma, posted by Sigismund on July 7, 2007, at 21:12:28
So it has something to do with standing out against the crowd when there is nothing in it for you.
Clearly nothing like the pardon to Libby, if I've got that right, nor GWBs reluctance to exercise clemency when it would have been appreciatated.
It's that sense of rightness that is the problem for me. That's what I liked in the Steve Earl song, these lines.....
Said "I'm the next big thing and the gift that I bring
Comes directly from God, so there ain't no holdin' me down"
So he crowned himself king
Now no one remembers his name
But the seed that he sowed took the show on the road
There was blood on their hands and a plague on the land
They drew a line in the sand and made their last stand
They said "God made us in his image
And it's in God that we trust"
When asked about the men that had died by their hands
They said "ashes to ashes and dust to dust"
poster:Sigismund
thread:766777
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/poli/20070312/msgs/768350.html