Go ‘Bama!
While I am as hopeful as the next person that Obama may somehow stop this out-of-control train and let us all off, I wonder if the man is on a hiding to nothing. I believe that he is a good man and will do his best but it seems the whole world is waiting with bated breath for him to solve all problems, stop all wars, feed all the hungry and then tuck us all in and read us a bedtime story.
Obama is known as a fabulous communicator so probably does not need any advice from a dusty old poet. Nevertheless Pedro Lopez de Ayala spent many years immersed in the treacheries of Castillian court life in the late 1300’s so he obviously knew a thing or two about tact and diplomacy.
” Debe considerar el buen predicador
Qual es la qualidad de su escuchador,
E segunt aquella forma sea rasonador;
A resios como a resios, e á flacos con amor.”
Ayala. Rimado da Palacio, 1157.
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