Comments on: Roosevelt 100 Years Ago

By: jill

jill — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:05:41 +0000

Where is Teddy when we need him? Our government seems to have forgotten the phrase “of the people, by the people, for the people”

By: VirusHead

VirusHead — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:03:53 +0000

Thanks Darrell! Just the info I needed.

Too bad about the post – it would be difficult to reconstruct that many theo-literary puns!

By: Darrell Grizzle

Darrell Grizzle — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:53:13 +0000

[Off topic] I wanted to let you know — I got your comment that you left on my blog about the newly-uncovered Gospel of Judas, but after I approved it, it disappeared into the cybersphere. The Gospel of Judas is available at any Barnes & Noble or Borders, usually on the “Da Vinci” table at the front of the store. You can also download the text as a 7-page pdf file.

~ Darrell

By: VirusHead

VirusHead — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:01:43 +0000

Thank you! A useful comment – much appreciated, the more so since I’m a bit mortified that I didn’t catch it. It’s been about 15 years since I read any de Tocqueville, but it didn’t sound that far off.

In your piece you refer to him as “Tocqueville.” I wasn’t aware that the convention of the inclusion of the “de” was broken in his case. Do you know why that might be?

I would have guessed that the quotation might have been from Journey to America rather than Democracy in America, but as I say, it’s been a while.

You’ve traced out an interesting viral effect. It’s an interesting story – I urge other readers to take a look.

Wilkerson is not the first to be mistaken on this, as you make clear. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional.

By: John J. Pitney, Jr.

John J. Pitney, Jr. — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:40:57 +0000

The Tocqueville quotation is fake. See http://www.tocqueville.org/pitney.htm