MSNBC - Altercation

“And now Aristophanes, who surely must be God, has given us George W. Bush, a man unfit to run a hardware store let alone a nation like this one, and who has merely reaffirmed for me the maxim that informed the writing of all these books and that makes our lives as Americans as precarious as anyone else's: all the assurances are provisional, even here in a 200-year-old democracy.  We are ambushed, even as free Americans in a powerful republic armed to the teeth, by the unpredictability that is history.” Philip Roth

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