Reply #33: Hear! Hear! or is it "Here! Here!"?

[CrispyQ]

Funny. I've always wondered about that too & never bothered to look it up until now. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear_hear

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Hear hear is an expression that originated as hear ye, or hear him, usually repeated. This imperative was used to call attention to a speaker's words, and naturally developed the sense of a broad expression of favour.
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DK is the only candidate I will send money to this election. I will work for my local dems, canvas neighborhoods, but I have so little discretionary income compared to '04 that only DK will get my money.

Here's another thing -- when people compare him to an elf -- and, he is sort of elf like -- why is that a bad thing? Most of us like elves. We loved Legolas & how many of us buy Keebler over Nabisco because of those cute little elves? I know I do. American's have become very shallow about our leaders -- we care more about how they look than their substance. Not all Americans, of course, but the "I'd rather have a beer with bush than Kerry" -- I mean really -- why would anyone vote on that premise? I just don't get it.

Remember in the movie "The American President" the Martin Sheen character says to the Michael Douglas character, regarding Roosevelt, "You've said it yourself a million times. If there had been a TV in every living room sixty years ago, this country does not elect a man in a wheelchair."

We aren't so far from the cave.