dlowan wrote:That is interesting - US politicians often seem very grandiose to us, because of the stuff about god and "this great country of ours" - overt patriotism seems very florid and silly (though it is starting to happen here - grrrrr).
'Tis all in the relativity....
The pile of reeking bovine fecal matter is grandiose, but the emotional content, the level of passion and commitment to message, the strength of conviction in goals and means, is, at least as far as I am concerned, lacking.
(Was watching C-SPAN the other night, a few congressional folk talking in the middle of the night just to get some statements on record, who were actually quite impassioned, quite informed, quite willing to take a firm stance on a thin limb. Sadly, nobody you ever see or read about in any of the most influential American news outlets.)
