If the Candidates Channeled Great Literary Figures

Mitt Romney:

“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.” - Walt Whitman


Barack Obama:

"I swear 't is better to be much abused
Than but to know 't a little" - Shakespeare, Othello, 3.3


Anybody have any for Biden (should be easy)? Ryan (likewise)?

[Danzig]

biden:

'O that he were here to write me
down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an
ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not
that I am an ass.'

Dogberry, much ado about nothing. (maybe not a 'great' literary character, but my immediate thought when i read mike's post).

on Biden!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

: on Biden!

thanks.

nothing comes to mind yet for ryan.

[Danzig]

i was pondering on romney, and thought of 'martin chuzzlewhit' by dickens. a great book, one of his lesser knowns i guess, but one i enjoyed. the title character is an old man with a lot of money-which is why i thought of him in regards to romney...so, here it is, a quote from chuzzlewhit for old mitt:


“The weather being hot, he had no cravat, and wore his shirt collar wide open; so that every time he spoke something was seen to twitch and jerk up in his throat, like the little hammers in a harpsichord when the notes are struck. Perhaps it was the Truth feebly endeavouring to leap to his lips. If so, it never reached them.”
― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

[bigrun]

She is referring to Romney..


'i distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because i notice it always coincides with their own desires' - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist(1820-1906)