User:Martel,C

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One of my favorite secular quotes is from the historian, Thomas Babington Macaulay:

"Nine-tenths the calamities of the human race are due to the union of high intelligence with low desires." -- Macaulay, "Lord Bacon," (1837).

Part of my reason for opposing the political careers of the Clintons is that both Bill and Hillary, imo, exhibit Macaulay's dictum. I think of Bill's veto in order to preserve the "right" to inflict partial-birth abortion on an innocent baby; also his infamous dodge, "that depends on what the meaning of is, is."

In Hillary's case, her lust for power strikes me as all too apparent during this year's presidential campaign. Her two-faced treatment of Barack Obama would be a case in point -- professing that she is honored to share the same stage with him, and then later the same week scolding him publicly for old campaign literature ("shame on you, Barack Obama").

Without question, however, both Bill and Hillary possess high intelligence -- reminiscent, perhaps, of the political proficiency exhibited by Juan Peron and Evita Peron. On second thought, I'm inclined to think that this comparison does a disservice to the memory of the Perons. More apt might be Old Testament figures, Ahab and Jezebel.