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Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Twain. Show all posts

Monday, August 15, 2011

Truly, this wretch knows no bounds: Sarah tries to co-opt Mark Twain

Via SarahPac:

We spent a great afternoon in “America’s Hometown,” as Hannibal, Missouri, is famously called. Of course, Hannibal plays an important role in American literature as the hometown of Samuel Clemens. This town on the Mississippi River and his boyhood adventures here were the inspiration for many of Mark Twain’s most famous works.
Read more:   Joe McGinniss

Monday, July 18, 2011

Articles on Sarah Palin July 18, 2011

1. Sarah Palin's Grace Under Pressure
From Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn:

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; ... they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass[.]
[And talking to the mob:]...   Read more:   Free Republic
A Palin lover OMG!!! Grace are you kidding me?

2. Why is sarah palin sticking her nose into Florida Politics?
Pushing for Drilling off of there coast when the people that live there don’t even want it?

Best answer:
Answer by DM
I think she was wearing a t-shirt that said “Not in MY back yard.”...  
Found @:   The Politics Blog