Sic Transit Gloria

by on September 29, 2008

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Backstage at the debate from Howard Kurtz:

Ten feet away, John Kerry—who would have been mobbed four years ago—looked around the tent, and when no one seemed interested in his presence, walked out.

Perhaps H.L. Mencken was on to something when he wrote:

Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young.

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