Edward Hamley speaking of Marshal Bezaine during the
Franco-Prussian war...
“The anxiety of the temporizing mind which prefers
postponement of a crisis to vigorous action.”
Sure sounds like Obama to me.
“The regime became stricter and harsher.Hinzpeter described fourteen year old Willie’s “Ill-omeded self adulation: and “the unpleasant trait of arrogance...{which] bolsters the indolence which nature has so generously conferred on him.”
He called him lazy and conceited. “Evidence of positive goodwill towards anyone at all is nevertheless as rare as instances of heartless egoism are frequent...his almost crystal hard egoism...forms the innermost core of his being.”
-——page 17
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
Miranda Carter