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To: Kaslin
Democrats began telling themselves demography is destiny back in 1968 after Richard Nixon's election. They have been saying it ever since. That day may eventually arrive, but today is not that day. They may also believe they are a permanent party, but history is filled with Ozymandias like permanence.

I just couldn't get past "Ozymandias" without a trip to Wikipedia. Here is what I learned:

Wikipedia, referencing a poem of the same name by Shelly pronounces: "The central theme of "Ozymandias" is contrasting the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they build with their pretensions to greatness."

I have to admit that does characterize the Obama-Reid-Pelosi-Jarrett regime quite nicely.

3 posted on 11/07/2014 4:47:04 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: InterceptPoint
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away".

9 posted on 11/07/2014 5:48:04 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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