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skamaria Donating Member (46 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 01:22 PM
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H.L. Mencken
Found this quotation by Mencken on salon today. Quoted from the Baltimore Sun in 1920.
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represent, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folk of the land will reach their heart's desire at last
and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 01:39 PM
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1. more Mencken ...
Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

btw, welcome to DU.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-06-04 03:36 PM
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2. Hi skamaria!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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