Comments on: Not a Fool, but a Democrat http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2011/11/05/not-a-fool-but-a-democrat/ Dogtown Meditations Sat, 05 May 2012 04:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: William Timberman http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2011/11/05/not-a-fool-but-a-democrat/comment-page-1/#comment-1547 William Timberman Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:09:54 +0000 http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/?p=2489#comment-1547 I'm not an unqualified admirer of Churchill's politics, but his oft-quoted observation about the progress of another war seems appropriate today: <blockquote><i>Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.</i></blockquote> As with all Churchillian rhetorical flourishes, this seems a bit too carefully staged to be entirely praiseworthy -- except in the eyes of historians who always seem to be fishing for the <i>bon mot</i> -- but to anyone caught up in the struggles to reclaim civil society from the death grip of oligarchs and technocrats now going on all over the world, it doesn't seem the least bit extravagant. I’m not an unqualified admirer of Churchill’s politics, but his oft-quoted observation about the progress of another war seems appropriate today:

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

As with all Churchillian rhetorical flourishes, this seems a bit too carefully staged to be entirely praiseworthy — except in the eyes of historians who always seem to be fishing for the bon mot — but to anyone caught up in the struggles to reclaim civil society from the death grip of oligarchs and technocrats now going on all over the world, it doesn’t seem the least bit extravagant.

]]> By: Casual Observer http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/2011/11/05/not-a-fool-but-a-democrat/comment-page-1/#comment-1545 Casual Observer Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:28:00 +0000 http://dogtownessays.com/wordpress/?p=2489#comment-1545 Bill, it turns out the Greeks are voting anyway, out in the street. I'm not sure they begged permission of Merkel before doing so. Bill, it turns out the Greeks are voting anyway, out in the street. I’m not sure they begged permission of Merkel before doing so.

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