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mhatrw

(10,786 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 02:34 AM Jan 2016

The Prosaic Plagiarist

https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-sanders-odds-over-newly-proposed-nh-debate-004615119--election.html

When asked for her reaction to Sanders’ new TV ad featuring Simon and Garfunkel, she had an answer that both complimented her opponent and challenged him, too.

“I think that’s great, I think that’s fabulous. I loved it,” she said about the ad. But, she added, “Look. You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”


https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mario_Cuomo

"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose." The New Republic (4 April 1985)

Channeling Mario Cuomo, Joe Biden, and Hubert Humphrey all at the same time?

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