Barbra Streisand Quoteing Thomas Jefferson

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[RocNRep]

Just heard about this on Fox, check it out:

We Must Have Patience ...Barbra Streisand Posted on November 8, 2004

In response to the results of the Presidential election last week, I would like to share with you a quote from Thomas Jefferson. Although written in 1798, I feel his words speak perfectly to the strong sentiments of frustration and disappointment 48% of the country feel.

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt......If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

[bikepacker67]

Carville is calling for the Democratic Party to be born again.

It's pretty damn funny, when Carville is the (relative) voice of reason for the Rats.

Maybe he's been doing some introspection in his sensory deprivation tank...

[50sDad]

"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."

------------------->"Lazarus Long" [Robert Heinlein]

[Dionysius]

You left out that enlightened bunch of shrews in the House (i.e. Maxine "Where's Mine?" Waters, Nancy "Death Mask" Pelosi, et al).

[miloklancy]

This is nauseating. Someone as repugnant, vain, and elitist quoting our greatest president and architect of our system. If any party has veered from the principles of our system it is the Democratic Party, which bears little to no resemblence to the party of Jefferson, the Democratic Republican Party.

[steve8714]

Where are Leonard Maltin and Robert Smith when you need them?

[hophead]

Can someone tell her to get a clue. On second thought, I will tell her and her ilk to continue to rant and rave at the top of their lungs as long as they want. Put them on tv and radio and all the MSM. Their ranting for the past 4 years is what put W back in the WH. Lets hear more from Moore, Pelosi, Dicrappio etc. etc. Thanks for all your help in reelecting GW.

[Emerging Patriot]

It is truely pathetic to see them use quotations out of context. Here is the whole letter.

My favorite passage (it is most applicable):

"P.S. It is hardly necessary to caution you to let
nothing of mine get before the public; a single sentence
got hold of by the Porcupines, will suffice to abuse
and persecute me in their papers for months."

Emerging Patriot

http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/ap/chapter7/7.1.tj2taylor.html

Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1798
From Paul Leicester Ford. The Works of Thomas Jefferson. Volume VIII. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. 430-433.

[punster]

"You left out that enlightened bunch of shrews in the House (i.e. Maxine "Where's Mine?" Waters, Nancy "Death Mask" Pelosi, et al)."


Thanks, for correcting the ommission

[Bikers4Bush]

I find it terribly ironic that babs would use a quote from Jefferson who no doubt would have disagreed with her politics.

[Dallas59]

Did she sing it?????

[gitmogrunt]

Delusional Hollywood Idiot Alert.

[KMG365]

Wasn't long ago that liberals were trying to tarnish the image of Jefferson with front-page stories about how he fathered children with slaves.

[AmericanChef]

-"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles."-

Wait...did she end up voting for Bush after all?

[MarxSux]

Absolutely the worst news of this election is that Cynthia McKinney is back in the House.

[lsee]

There comes a furious pounding upon her door...and she answers...because the maid has inexplicably run away...There in the doorway looms the tall, vengeful figure of the revered, long-dead patriarch. As she gapes up into his ethereal face, still glowing from the light of Heaven, she recognizes her grievous error..too late to repent...too late. An unworldly hand reaches for her throat...she covers her neck as she backs away, unable to scream. The floor opens with a roar beneath her trembling feet and she is falling, falling into the abyss of heat and smoke and flames, her shriek blotted out by the shush of marble closing back up.

The clock begins to chime midnight and he glances up, a half-smile quirking the corners of his handsome mouth as he surveys the opulent entryway. He knows the imminent confusion over the mysterious change in the woman's will. Who suspected her benevolence to so many conservative causes? With a sound that might have been a laugh, he vanishes, a wisp of vapor the last witness to woman's demise.

[Cultural Jihad]

. . . we must have patience till luck turns, . . .

Ah, how the Democrats love to preach luck. People don't get ahead by hard work and dedication and discipline. No, they get ahead by buying a lottery ticket, and passively sitting back, and waiting for Lady Luck to shine on them with other people's money!

[Dilbert56]

In her case, how about: "Shut up and don't sing either"

[massgopguy]

Does Babs bring her favorite slave to Paris when she goes there?

[massgopguy]

Babs also needs a Teleprompter in concert so she can read the lyrics. Isn't this called "Kareoke"?

[Alouette]

Is there someone who has access to a library with a collection of Jefferson's writings?

I would like to know if Jefferson really said this and if so, in what context. I did a Google search and it came up on a lot of leftwing blogs, but I couldn't find any academic site devoted to Jefferson's original documents.

There have been a lot of bogus quotes traveling all over the Internet, including anti-Semitic remarks allegedly made by Ben Franklin and a pro-Zionist letter allegedly written by Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK was pro-Israel but the letter is bogus).

Furthermore, we all know how carefully BS checks her sources (like Shakespeare)