Liberally Biased : Dunces on health care
Posted: August 21, 2009 at 7:22 a.m.
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?" - Mark Twain in "Huckleberry Finn" At some point, I think we all need to just face the fact that the American public is riddled with ignorance. This is nothing new. While Adlai Stevenson was running for president in the 1950s, a supporter told him that thinking Americans were on his side. "That is not enough. I need a majority," Stevenson quipped. Stevenson was on to something true, then and now.
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