tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133230762011-04-21T14:45:52.378-07:00Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323076.post-1117599906582369452005-05-31T21:25:00.000-07:002005-05-31T21:25:06.586-07:00Republicans don't change, do they?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13323076-111759990658236945?l=second-class-intellect.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323076.post-1117596602960265962005-05-31T20:30:00.000-07:002005-05-31T20:31:15.283-07:00<blockquote>I should like to have it said of my first administration that the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces have met their match.</blockquote><br /><br />The roar from the Democratic faithful was tribal, almost atavistic. <i>David Reynolds, London Review of Books, "Had he not run", a review.</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13323076-111759660296026596?l=second-class-intellect.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13323076.post-1117596344984545412005-05-31T20:21:00.000-07:002005-05-31T20:25:52.786-07:00This blog with an ironic name is devoted to vignettes of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Not a biography, just a collection of cool stuff, mostly quotes.<br /><br />By the way, <span style="font-style:italic;">Second Class Intellect</span> is borrowed from a 1933 quip about FDR by Oliver Wendell Holmes:<blockquote>A second-class intellect but a first-class temperament.</blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13323076-111759634498454541?l=second-class-intellect.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Nur-al-Cubiclenoreply@blogger.com0