[Ads-l] New proverb
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Sat Dec 13 14:21:28 UTC 2014
Have heard this at least three times in the past week.
Earlier (Aug. 28, 2013)
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/08/29/mccain-if-us-strikes-syria-without-intent-regime-change-then-what-are-we-supposed-accompl
<http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/08/29/mccain-if-us-strikes-syria-without-intent-regime-change-then-what-are-we-supposed-accompl>
"Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz.: By the way, the president just showed on
issues like these, it's not where you stand, it's where you sit. He sits in
a very different place now."
It seems essentially to mean "A politicians actions speak louder than his
words."
The wisdom of Inglish.
JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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