Shakespeare’s Guide to Washington’s Scandals

Bloomberg | Jun 6, 2013 3:30 | Stephen L. Carter

[nickcarraway]

Shakespeare’s Guide to Washington’s Scandals

[onedoug]

Where’s Shakespeare?

[Sopater]

If we rank our scandals according to the long-term damage they are likely to do, then the worst is surely our ceaseless “civil dissension” -- the inability of our leaders to enact even a pretense of getting along.

[stanne]

Shakespeare knew all about these despots.

Bookmarking.

[stanne]

Without reading, Bush is King Lear, the rest are easy, where they don’t morph from one character into another, depending on a fleeting attitude or quote.

[nickcarraway]

Stratford-upon-Avon

[nickcarraway]

Clinton, Kerry, Obama = Polonius.

By the way, Polonius #1 political tactic was spying on people.

[nickcarraway]

Bush is King Lear

Where do you get that? At best, Bush is Richard II, with Henry V thrown in, but only from Part I.

[sauropod]

bump

[stanne]

OK. I see that.

I see him with power and status (former) and taken advantage of by all, to the point of failure

[newheart]

Where’s Shakespeare?

He's in the alley,
with his pointed shoes and his bells,
Speaking with some French girl,
Who says she knows me well.
(Dylan)

[stormhill]

At best, Bush is Richard II

Richard III, actually.
But really, this is all too complicated. Just go to Hamlet: "...This above all; to thine own self be true. And it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."