well in the 'professional', careful language of politics poetry must
be seen as an arena for fiction & embellishment
KS
On 07/01/2008, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just encountered this formulation:
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> At a raucous rally in a high school gymnasium in Nashua, Clinton skewered
> Obama for several votes he has cast in the Senate, such as his vote in
> favor of the Patriot Act and for energy legislation she described as "Dick
> Cheney's energy bill." She never mentioned Obama's name but left no doubt
> about whom she was discussing.
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> "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton said.
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> Barry Alpert
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