Hillary may lose a few poet votes (yeah, right), but her point is I
think well-taken. It scares the hell out of me that she's losing to a
casting director's dream of a candidate who talks pretty and depends
on aides to work the system. We've been there before--Reagan or Bush,
anyone? (though Obama's heart's in the right place, at least)--and if
McCain's the Republican candidate he'll wash the floor with Obama.
Mark
At 07:59 AM 1/7/2008, you wrote:
>It's an interesting binary formulation that uses the terms as metaphors.
>What other terms could we plug in? You run in poetry, you walk in prose?
>(Though logically the order should be reversed in that one.) Awake in prose,
>asleep in poetry. You cook in prose, you eat in poetry.
>
>Rhetorically, it's an example of antithesis, which, politics aside, is
>something the Clinton campaign desperately needs to do right now, painting
>Barak Obama as "poetry" in a denegrative sense. Poetry can't possibly be
>serious, after all. It's one of those "edxtras" or "frills" we cut out of
>the education budget when we have wars to fund. Hmm . . . I guess that
>wasn't "politics aside" after all!
>
>jd
>
>On Jan 7, 2008 6:17 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Just encountered this formulation:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton said.
> >
> >
> > Barry Alpert
> >
>
>
>
>--
>Joseph Duemer
>Professor of Humanities
>Clarkson University
>[sharpsand.net]
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