Re: Let.s Go Hillary

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> Carrol wrote:
> >[clip] Then it will make sense to talk of HOPE.
> 
> Julio Huato wrote:
> > In other words, you are HOPELESS.
> 
> I know it's a cliché, but whatever happened to "optimism of the will,
> pessimism of the intellect"?

That is what was echoing through my mind as I typed. It seems to me that
to put one's hopes in either Obama or Clinton is to express utter
despair. 

Carrol

P. S. Pound was claimed that artists were the antennae of the race,
which is doubtful; nevertheless in writing of Arides in 1915 he might
well have been foreseeing the plight of those who, in 2008, give
themselves to the DP. They live in the slough of despair.

                Arides
The bashful Arides
Has married an ugly wife,
He was bored with his manner of life,
Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might as
Well do this as anything else.

Saying within his heart, "I am no use to myself,
"Let her, if she wants me, take me."
He went to his doom.