Milbank:
Clinton sure knows how to pick her locations. For her hastily scheduled appearance in West Virginia - her bid to show her resilience and defiance - she chose a spot made famous as a hospital for the severely wounded.
Shepherd University's white brick McMurran Hall was under construction as Shepherdstown's town hall in 1862, when the battle of Antietam overwhelmed the city with thousands of wounded; with no place left to go, the bloody and the maimed occupied the still unfinished building -- a bit of history now celebrated in plaques on the front lawn, where supporters listened to Clinton's speech.
Somehow Milbank manages to eschew any extension of the Eight Belles metaphor. (He's a better man than I.) Read the whole thing, if only for the devastating punctiliousness (or perhaps the opposite?) of the punctuation marks, as in "Next Tuesday will be one of the most important elections in this entire process!")
Clinton sure knows how to pick her locations. For her hastily scheduled appearance in West Virginia - her bid to show her resilience and defiance - she chose a spot made famous as a hospital for the severely wounded.
Shepherd University's white brick McMurran Hall was under construction as Shepherdstown's town hall in 1862, when the battle of Antietam overwhelmed the city with thousands of wounded; with no place left to go, the bloody and the maimed occupied the still unfinished building -- a bit of history now celebrated in plaques on the front lawn, where supporters listened to Clinton's speech.
Somehow Milbank manages to eschew any extension of the Eight Belles metaphor. (He's a better man than I.) Read the whole thing, if only for the devastating punctiliousness (or perhaps the opposite?) of the punctuation marks, as in "Next Tuesday will be one of the most important elections in this entire process!")
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