El Borak's Myopia

El Borak's Myopia

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There is only one step from the sublime

to the ridiculous:

HILLARY Clinton has continued to raise the populist rhetoric in a pitch to blue-collar votes, vowing on the eve of crucial Democrat primaries in two states to smash the OPEC "cartel"...

"We're going to go right at OPEC," she told supporters in Merrillville, Indiana. "They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world, they decide how much oil they're going to produce and what price they're going to put it at."

Oh, it's a beautiful thing that not only has America taken upon our shoulders the noble burden of deciding what manner of governments the nations of the Middle East shall have, we will now determine how much oil those nations must pump, process, and ship, and at what price they must offer it to us. I'm just certain that someday, somehow, they will thank us for sharing our wisdom with their benighted selves.

Napoleon said it best when he said, "If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." He was also correct when he said*, "In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

* Yet I think it applies less to politicians than to the people who believe them.

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