Posted
6:17 PM
by Gene
A big minus: "Bush entered the White House," says Howard Fineman, "one of the least-traveled presidents in modern history."
Boinnnnggggg! Shakespeare probably never ventured much beyond fifty miles outside London, yet he had the profoundest imagination in all literature. Lincoln probably traveled across no more than a thousand miles and became our greatest president. Slick went anywhere and everywhere. Look what it got him -- and us.
(I have not forgotten that the Shake wrote great comedy like the mad scene in
Hamlet, but that's another story.)