QOTY candidate, or new wine in old bottles?

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> All?
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> http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/raskin.asp
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> DanG

Thanks.  I find the Jackson/Sims version a bit more polished rhetorically than Raskin's or Maher's.  And since JJJr's was the first of these, and especially since he can use some props given his recent contretemps, let's attribute it to him unless anyone can push it back farther.  But I guess its pull-by date as QOTY potential has long since passed, more's the pity.

LH
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> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> In reading a HuffPo piece at
>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/brian-sims-abortion-pennsylvania_n_3141950.html
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>> I was struck by the phrasing of the last two lines of Bryan Sims's
>> statement:
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>> "This legislation is about advancing an ideology of oppression and
>> suppression, even if such a plan means ignoring the oath of office that
>> each of us swore," Sims told his colleagues during a floor debate in the
>> House of Representatives. "As a reminder, Mr. Speaker, I do believe this
>> has been forgotten entirely by many of my colleagues today: Each of us put
>> our hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. We did not
>> place our hands on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."
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>> This strikes me as too eloquent for our times, as if it might have come
>> from the Darrow/Scopes era, but the google hits I see all come back to
>> Bryan Sims.  Could it actually have been uttered for the first time by Sims
>> in this speech?  Might it be a variant of some earlier   rhetorical
>> reversal with different content?
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>> LH
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