Wednesday, September 19, 2007
H.L.Mencken, the Baltimore Nostradamus
Joe Galloway doesn't go quite that far in his praise of H.L. for divining that we would someday be ruled by a moron, but he is impressed at how well George W Bush fits the image of the predicted idiot bastard child.
On July 26th, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: "...all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."What follows is a litany of the many ways that our IBC fits this description. Sadly he ends with the only words appropriate for the state we are in..
God help us.
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