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There is a long amiable letter to the young Lafayette in 1779, in which Washington, in a giddy mood, drifts into a reverie about competing for Lafayette's young wife with Lafayette himself--a funny bit of teasing, followed abruptly by a rueful reassurance, worthy of Stendhal himself, that "amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be produced where a Woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."
Does his notion of "civilizations" as tribes writ large make sense?
In his crime bill, passed in 1994, he went further than any Republican president would have dared to restrict habeas corpus, the writ by which state prisoners, including those on death row, can get their cases reviewed by federal courts.
Prepare To Win is this passage writ large.
It's the Clinton sex scandals writ small, which served only to prove that the entire political establishment has grown so far removed from the mood of the people, it's little wonder that I'm hoping Warren Beatty will run, if only to save my sanity--although I fear as a presidential contender he will break my heart just as Mario Cuomo did all those years ago--and others are looking to Jesse Ventura, if not for president then at least as the man to stop Pat Buchanan.