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By Gosh, I Think I've Got It! Bernie caught some gaff for having a narrow focus campaign. Here's how he's going to broaden it out. IMHO. And that doesn't mean he's running for anything,  just being Bernie. * Teddy as the model for... ...The New Bernie campaign? * I was zapping through the pile of political pitches I get everyday on my old fashioned e-mail (wduffer@aol.com), zap, zap, zap... Congressmen from Colorado, Florida, Ohio... on and on, Democrats I never heard of, but I'm on "The List." I don't get irritated, I just get rid of the ads; I mean after all, they're Democrats. After I finished my zapping, I had a snack and set to recording another audiobook chapter. Then it hit me, based on one of the ads I zapped.  Here 'tis: It was when I dragged it up again that I noticed it was a Bernie ad, and I said, "That's it!" Do you how many great quotes flowed from Teddy R? About half of them ar...

I See the Kinship, Me and Mark Mark Twain has been one of my heroes forever.  Now I discover he felt about Teddy Roosevelt the way I feel about Donald Trump.  Roosevelt felt the same way about Twain.  (I like them both.) They worked it out by not speaking publicly about their mutual disdain. Avoided a national embarrassment, they did. * ** "Acutely aware of each other's popularity, neither [Roosevelt nor Twain] publicly denounced the other. Among friends, though, both were free with their feelings. Roo­sevelt said he would like to 'skin Mark Twain alive.' Twain considered Roosevelt 'clearly insane' and 'the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War.' Sound familiar? Especially after Trump pulled us out of the Paris Accords. Too bad we can't contain our hostilities more like they did.   Of course neither of them tweeted. Much. * MT credit ** TR credit