[liberallarry]

You know don't you that there are many, many people who value the arts and sciences far more than they do politics and, in those circles, Caruso, Robeson, and Pavarotti will be discussed many years from now...while Bush, Gebhardt, Dean, Clinton, Carter and all the rest will be dismissed as worthless, posturing, pretentious, lying clowns - as they are today.

[AmishDude]

... Gebhardt, ... and all the rest will be dismissed as worthless, posturing, pretentious, lying clowns - as they are today.

As they say, as long as they spell the name right.

The temporal nature of a single performance, however, does not have the lasting impact of other art forms. There will be many tenors, but they will sing the work of the one and only Mozart.