
А кто же теперь наполнит мир малиновыми звонами? Не даёт ответа...
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.Наш современник Howard Stern подверг заключение Черчилля скрупулёзной экспериментальной проверке и установил, что оно (как минимум) нуждается в серьёзной ревизии. Транжирить целых пять минут на одного избирателя нет ни малейшей необходимости.
We condemn in the strongest terms this senseless act...Призываем мадам-секретаря вернуться к исполнению своих непосредственных служебных обязанностей и - как минимум - осудить провокационную деятельность еврейского премьер-министра Биби Нетаньяху, который пристаёт как банный лист со своим Ираном и тем препятствует размеренному течению избирательной кампании дорогого товарища Барака Х.
Consider the record. His failed personal effort to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. His failed personal effort to negotiate a climate-change deal at Copenhagen in 2009. His failed efforts to strike a nuclear deal with Iran that year and this year. His failed effort to improve America's public standing in the Muslim world with the now-forgotten Cairo speech. His failed reset with Russia. His failed effort to strong-arm Israel into a permanent settlement freeze. His failed (if half-hearted) effort to maintain a residual U.S. military force in Iraq. His failed efforts to cut deals with the Taliban and reach out to North Korea. His failed effort to win over China and Russia for even a symbolic U.N. condemnation of Syria's Bashar Assad. His failed efforts to intercede in Europe's economic crisis. ("Herr Obama should above all deal with the reduction of the American deficit" was the free advice German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble offered this year.)и подытоживает:
I tend to think that the buzz about American decline mistakes the mediocrity of the president for the destiny of the nation. But we have an election on, the outcome of which will decide whether one man's mediocrity becomes a whole nation's destiny. Mr. Obama is now the world's leading has-been, trying to revive a career on the strength of a talent that was greatly exaggerated to begin with. But a country that's willing to reward mediocrity with a second chance risks becoming a has-been itself.Денис умер и лучше как будто не сказал. Но добавим из объективности и малую дозу критики: а почему нет ни слова про любезный нам Гондурас?