Blogotional: Petulance

Monday, March 27, 2006

Petulance

Dadmanly looks a Victor David Hanson interview with Hugh Hewitt and "Amen's" their thoughts with some Teddy Rossevelt quotes. Somehow this from TR...

A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The role is easy; there is none easier, save only the role of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.

...came to mind when I read these stories a bit later

Chirac leaves summit as Frenchman speaks English

Reid: Bush 'Dangerously Incompetent'