ROFLMAO.....In case you missed it...

[rateyes]

I know that DUers are the most informed, educated people on the planet. But, I read this quote (which I'm sure most of you have probably already seen) written 86 years ago by H.L. Mencken. First time I'd seen it, and it cracked me up. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look---if you have, it's worth remembering again:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. 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 down-right moron."
- H.L. Mencken (1920)


Another of Mencken's quotes:

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." -- H. L. Mencken

LOL :-D

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Excellent. He was well worth quoting.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken

Here are some pages of his great quotes.
http://www.watchfuleye.com/mencken.html

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken

[rateyes]

3. Thanks for the link! nt

[0007]

6. Those were some of the greatest quotes I've ever heard.

Let me share one with you by Carl Sandburg

"The People, Yes"

"Get off this estate."
"What for?"
"Because it's mine."
"Where did you get it?"
"From my father."
"Where did he get it?"
"From his father."
"And where did he get it?"
"He fought for it."
"Well, I'll fight you for it."

[IdaBriggs]

2. I'll kick that quote, and nominate it, too! nt

:kick:

[NYCGirl]

4. According to Gore Vidal, though, Mencken was "notoriously anti-liberal":

As Mencken thought all government bad, it follows that he was a Jeffersonian who believed that the least we had of a bad thing the better. As "an incurable Tory in politics," he was congenitally antiliberal, though "I always give heed to them politely, for they are at least free men." Surprisingly, he has respectful words for Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, victims of federal persecution (it is not taught in our schools that once upon a time, at the behest of the Secretary of Labor, foreign-born Americans could be deported, without due process). Mencken finds the two radicals "extremely intelligent -- once their aberrant political ideals are set aside they are seen to be very sharp wits. They think clearly, unsentimentally and even a bit brilliantly. They write simple, glowing and excellent English." Mencken confesses that he cannot understand how they can believe so childishly in the proletariat, but "the fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret. All of us, in our several ways, are illogical, irrational, almost insane." Mencken's tolerance for the bees aswarm in the bonnets of others was very great if the swarm be honest and its honey pure.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mencken.htm#TOP

[Steely_Dan]

5. Excellent Post....

Thanks...