Comments on: A History Lesson for Bush http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/ The blog of a British freelance writer living in New York Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Nick http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60600 Nick Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:41:58 +0000 http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60600 Fair enough - and that last sentence you quote, with the tip sheet and all, has that horrible tinge of 'I'm an intellectual but I know how to slum it with the common man, don'tchaknow, what!' Fair enough - and that last sentence you quote, with the tip sheet and all, has that horrible tinge of ‘I’m an intellectual but I know how to slum it with the common man, don’tchaknow, what!’

]]> By: beau http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60598 beau Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:35:29 +0000 http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60598 well maybe but my main complaint is this article is the biggest 4 pages of waffle I have ever read. Here is a man who was not happy to use one word when he could use 27 if ever there was one. I'm not surprised his poor student chaperone drove into a bus. He was probably trying to shut this guy up if his talking was anything like his writing! All due respect to all parties concerned and all that of course.... well maybe but my main complaint is this article is the biggest 4 pages of waffle I have ever read. Here is a man who was not happy to use one word when he could use 27 if ever there was one.

I’m not surprised his poor student chaperone drove into a bus. He was probably trying to shut this guy up if his talking was anything like his writing!

All due respect to all parties concerned and all that of course….

]]> By: Nick http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60597 Nick Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:25:52 +0000 http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60597 The past might static, but history's all over the place. The past might static, but history’s all over the place.

]]> By: beau http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60561 beau Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:18:20 +0000 http://pdberger.com/a-history-lesson-for-bush/#comment-60561 What the heck does this mean? "Those who know history best tend to be tempered by it. They rarely refer to it so sweepingly and with such complete confidence. They know that it is the most mischievous of mistresses and that it touts sure things about as regularly as the tip sheets at the local track. Its most important lessons sometimes come cloaked in bitter irony." Isn't history static? And this cat must have had some pretty staid mistresses in his romancing days if dusty history is giving them a run for their money. What the heck does this mean?

“Those who know history best tend to be tempered by it. They rarely refer to it so sweepingly and with such complete confidence. They know that it is the most mischievous of mistresses and that it touts sure things about as regularly as the tip sheets at the local track. Its most important lessons sometimes come cloaked in bitter irony.”

Isn’t history static? And this cat must have had some pretty staid mistresses in his romancing days if dusty history is giving them a run for their money.

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