RE: "Crooked Hillary" cheated during the debate! Damning evidence!
September 30, 2016 at 2:02 pm
I thought this quote from A Country of Vast Designs may be relevant here.
Here's the context of the quote: Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser and orator from Kentucky), a staunch political opponent of James K. Polk, entered the White House and paid Polk a courtesy call shortly after noon on February 4, 1848 (Merry, 2009, p. 418). Clay, Polk, and Sarah, Polk's wife, engaged each other in polite, civil conversation and shared some laughs, which set the stage for Clay to depart the White House on amicable terms with Polk and Sarah (Merry, 2009, p. 419).
Quote: "The touching episode reflected an underlying reality of American politics: However intensely the battles are fought and however copiously the animosities flow, all parties are expected to accept the political outcomes in good grace and refrain from the kinds of personal enmities that could undermine the balance of democracy...And now, after all those years of animosity, these two men, representing the two rival political philosophies, paid a measure of obeisance to that principle. Not even Clay's loss of a beloved son—in a war commenced by Polk over the Kentuckian's opposition—would be allowed to thwart this symbolic nod to the principle of harmonious democratic contention" (Merry, 2009, pp: 419-420).
References
Merry, Robert W. A Country of Vast Designs: James K Polk, The Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009.
Here's the context of the quote: Henry Clay (The Great Compromiser and orator from Kentucky), a staunch political opponent of James K. Polk, entered the White House and paid Polk a courtesy call shortly after noon on February 4, 1848 (Merry, 2009, p. 418). Clay, Polk, and Sarah, Polk's wife, engaged each other in polite, civil conversation and shared some laughs, which set the stage for Clay to depart the White House on amicable terms with Polk and Sarah (Merry, 2009, p. 419).
Quote: "The touching episode reflected an underlying reality of American politics: However intensely the battles are fought and however copiously the animosities flow, all parties are expected to accept the political outcomes in good grace and refrain from the kinds of personal enmities that could undermine the balance of democracy...And now, after all those years of animosity, these two men, representing the two rival political philosophies, paid a measure of obeisance to that principle. Not even Clay's loss of a beloved son—in a war commenced by Polk over the Kentuckian's opposition—would be allowed to thwart this symbolic nod to the principle of harmonious democratic contention" (Merry, 2009, pp: 419-420).
References
Merry, Robert W. A Country of Vast Designs: James K Polk, The Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009.
