Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn't

[gracheeha]

Some years ago I wrote a graduate-school thesis, in which I believe I remarked that the way William Shakespeare manipulated the heartbeat of his iambic pentameter so as to effortlessly reveal his characters' internal states-of-mind was enough to qualify him as an absolute master of the English language, worthy of continued study and critical praise. But, as it turns out, Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice, which includes a brutally anti-Semitic representation of a major character, and The Taming of the Shrew, which hardly takes an enlightened approach in its depiction of women. So, I guess I should renounce, denounce, reject, repudiate, disavow, disown, cast off, scorn, spurn, blackball, and -- ere the cock crows -- deny thrice for good measure, any previous compliment I may have paid a poet who once said things that I didn't agree with one hundred percent of the time. And Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, so he's a racist, and the university he founded which fueled my fascination with Shakespeare should be summarily rejected, denounced, et al., and maybe the country he helped to found, America, should also be renounced, dissed, and perhaps even damned by God, thus bringing us full circle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obamas-race-speech-damn_n_92026.html
Obama's Race Speech: Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn't - Politics on The Huffington Post

Comments

[igor734.livejournal.com]

Ну, все. Завтра на русаме пойдет волна: "Обама заявил, что "America... should be renounced, dissed, and perhaps even damned by God". :)

[ex-alex-arg.livejournal.com]

Все! Любовь моя, Хиллари, забыта навеки, я весь твой, Обама!:)))