If McCain maintained himself throughout his campaign by way of the example of his concession speech, I might have actually voted for him. What happened to him? Did he simply give himself over to his handlers? Was his want for power so strong that he gave himself over to his worst inclinations?
I simply cannot begin to imagine what this win means for so many African Americans.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Speaking of simplicity and dignity…
“Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude the question, ‘What on earth is he up to now?’ will intrude. It lays one’s devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, ‘I wish they’d remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks.”
C.S. Lewis
Simplicity
“The loss of simplicity is the destruction of dignity.”
The Parson’s Handbook, Revised Edition; Cyril E. Pocknee; (1965, p. 28)
(Of course, this 13th edition is “on the basis of the 12th Edition by Percy Dearmer.”)
Popcorn
How about his?