Re: Democrats pick up Hastert's seat

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:18:03 -0500, Gary <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:12:18 GMT, Rumpelstiltskin
<PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:30:02 -0500, Glenn <minorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:24:55 -0800, Rita wrote:


Democratic physicist Bill Foster, running in his first political campaign,
is heading to Congress after defeating Republican dairy owner Jim Oberweis
in a result that was unthinkable just weeks ago.

A physicist no less, that's impressive.



That's not necessarily a good thing. Remember that Einstein
declined the offer of president of Israel which was offered him
because of the respect he commanded throughout the world.
His explanation was that he loved Israel and wanted to do
whatever he could do to help her, but he was a scientist
dealing with facts, not a politician dealing with bargaining and
compromise, and therefore he thought that one very good thing
he could do for Israel was never to become her president!

Along with the fact he didn't have any idea what a president did.
Remember that Al was an idiot savant. Heavy on the idiot and light
on the savant.



I think the idiot part is only by comparison with the savant
part. If he'd had the same intelligence in physics that he had
in everything else, he'd be a normal guy. So would Mozart,
who could be shockingly socially scandalous for a man of
such shining genius, but it wouldn't be noticed so much
in a man of ordinary abilities. Or Voltaire, to whom Frederick
the Great wrote after their acrimonious split-up, due to such
activities as writing a satirical pamphlet that made
Frederick's beloved college of intellectuals the laughing
stock of Europe, and embarrassing the court by promptly
lending out the generous stipend Frederick had afforded him
at usurious interest, "It is a shame that the God who gave
you so much wit did not give you judgment as well."




He could have done what John Adams did when he became the country's
first Presiding Officer of the Senate. In the middle of his first
day John looked out at the bored Senator's and asked --- "What do I
do now ?" The answer was "Preside !" You idiot.

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