But probably in the old days, they lacked the skin care and freedom from manual labor that would have preserved youthful vitality. But I wonder what people’s excuses are now in the modern era. Power is so intoxicating it can destroy a woman’s outward aura?

It would, indeed, have been a very different movie.

OTOH, I’m glad Richard Burton didn’t get this role, which he was a front runner for.

Grover Cleveland responds to Obama’s SOTU Address:

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“When we consider that the theory of our institutions guarantees to every citizen the full enjoyment of all the fruits of his industry and enterprise, with only such deduction as may be his share toward the careful and economical maintenance of the Government which protects him, it is plain that the exaction of more than this is indefensible extortion and a culpable betrayal of American fairness and justice … The public Treasury, which should only exist as a conduit conveying the people’s tribute to its legitimate objects of expenditure, becomes a hoarding place for money needlessly withdrawn from trade and the people’s use, thus crippling our national energies, suspending our country’s development, preventing investment in productive enterprise, threatening financial disturbance, and inviting schemes of public plunder.”

Cleveland’s third annual message to Congress,
December 6, 1887

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“…inviting schemes of public plunder.”. Wow.

Contrast this: Sarah Palin.

The countenance of the Left versus the non-Left ought to be studied.

That’s some years of working up bait and switch angst.

Probably when you only have two choices or limited choices, propaganda and mind control tends to play a disproportionately greater effect than on people who have the time to pursue other options.

Although Althouse voted for Obama in 2008, she turned on him some time before the 2012 election and has been very critical of him for quite a few years. She did not vote for him in 2012.