{"id":7136,"date":"2016-11-08T09:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2017-01-25T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:23:59","slug":"2016-election-bookends-google-chairman-eric-schmidt-and-a-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7136","title":{"rendered":"2016 Election Bookends: Alphabet\/Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and a Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (1) writing<\/a> to Cheryl Mills (2) on April 15, 2014.<\/p>\n

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A citizen holding a Vote sign on Election Day. He moved with the traffic.<\/p>\n

1. DuckDuckGo on Eric Schmidt<\/a>. More<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. DuckduckGo on Cheryl Mills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Franklin<\/a>:

QUOTATION:
\n\u201cWell, Doctor, what have we got\u2014a Republic or a Monarchy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA Republic, if you can keep it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A few worthwhile election notes:<\/p>\n

Chris Arnade<\/a>. A must read, particularly for his work within “fly over” country.<\/p>\n

‘We Don\u2019t Know Who the Hero Is Until the Ship Sinks’ – Kinky Friedman:<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only did Jesus ride in on a jackass, but Gandhi was a yuppie lawyer living in London, with no interest in helping people.<\/p>\n

If you look at the great ones, Mother Teresa, Winston Churchill, FDR, they were all aristocratic freaks with very little interest in others. They\u2019re very much like Trump. I mean, particularly Churchill. He was a polo player in India and an adult butterfly collector. They liked to hang out at the country club, Rachel. They were very privileged people.<\/p>\n

When they got into office, Churchill and FDR, they did something that Obama was never able to do: change. The agent of change, Obama, could not change himself. He remained a fixed point in a changing world. It\u2019s just too bad; it’s who he is. He\u2019s not the smartest guy in the room. He may be the glibbest. He may be the most facile. I believe, if he\u2019s concerned about a legacy, I believe he can pretty well forget that.<\/p>\n

All I\u2019m saying is, we don\u2019t know who the hero is until the ship sinks. Or when the plane is crashing. You don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to run back and save somebody, or who\u2019s going to dress up like a woman so he can hide in a lifeboat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2007<\/a><\/p>\n

“Bread and Circuses”, via wikipedia<\/a> & Mencken Quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Most Important WikiLeaks Revelation Isn\u2019t About Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bailouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Killing the populist soul<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Populist Revolt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donna Brazile is totally not sorry for leaking CNN debate questions to Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Assange on the US Election<\/a><\/p>\n

Cathy Kraemer: The Politics of Resentment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Books of Daniel<\/a> (more<\/a>) and Romans<\/a> (more<\/a>) are always worth reading when contemplating history, not to mention recent events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (1) writing to Cheryl Mills (2) on April 15, 2014. A citizen holding a Vote sign on Election Day. He moved with the traffic. 1. DuckDuckGo on Eric Schmidt. More. 2. DuckduckGo on Cheryl Mills. Benjamin Franklin: QUOTATION: \u201cWell, Doctor, what have we got\u2014a Republic or a Monarchy?\u201d \u201cA Republic, if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7218,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}