"A contemporary politician remarked: “His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.” Hmm, sounds a lot like JK, doesn't it?
"...embark on the (usually fruitless) attempt to shape their own legacy" Now the author is describing Clinton!
"A contemporary politician remarked: “His speeches left the impression of an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea; sometimes these meandering words would actually capture a straggling thought and bear it triumphantly a prisoner in their midst, until it died of servitude and overwork.” Hmm, sounds a lot like JK, doesn't it?"
A sure thought this sounded like John Kerry as well. I remember several time during the debates looking at my wife and saying: "Was there a point in there soemwhere?"