You can tell a lot about a president — or a presidential candidate — by what he reads, or says he reads. We know the iconic examples: George Washington and his rules of civility, Thomas Jefferson and the thinkers of the French and Scottish Enlightenments, Lincoln and the Bible and Shakespeare. Though a generation apart, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt both loved Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “Influence of Sea Power Upon History” and savored the imperial poems of Kipling. Together such works created a kind of Anglo-American ethos in their minds — an ethos Franklin Roosevelt would make concrete during World War II, when he and Winston Churchill quoted Edward Lear’s nonsense rhymes to each other as they fought Hitler and Japan.

Originally Posted by daffy4u (Post 282752) ...and daffy4u... anything by Stephen King. (vote for me!)

Originally Posted by desertgrandma (Post 282758) I did, three times now!!! (Don't worry, I used different names each time)

Originally Posted by daffy4u (Post 282764) I have a place in my cabinet for both of you! :D

Originally Posted by desertgrandma (Post 282766) Oh, goodie!! (claps hands and does the "Elaine" dance.) You're gonna pay me too, right? :D

Vote Quayle/(Bill) Clinton in 2012!

Leading the fight against literacy for the Party Hearty party!

Originally Posted by vivaldirules (Post 282880) You do realize that The Duck is telling you that he has room for you both in his medicine cabinet, right? Right behind his lithium stash (be sure to take one every day, Duck).