ROMWELL HUMOR PAGE - RHETORIC - Who would quote the most famous lines of history and literature if it weren't for the artful way they were put? Can you recognize these famous lines with the retoric shaken out?

If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?Ask what you can do to help your country, not the other way around."What I'm sorry about is that I can't die for my country two or three times, over and over."
Let's Hear It for Rhetoric

POLITICIANS often attack opponents' ideas as "mere rhetoric." The habit has given rhetoric a bad rap. In truth, rhetoric makes the most of a thought, dressing it for effectiveness. Who would quote the most famous lines of history and literature if it weren't for the artful way they were put? Can you recognize these famous lines with the rhetoric shaken out?

If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

Today:	The originals:
1. "Should I really live or what? That's the bottom line."	1. "To be or not to be, that is the question."- William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

2. "What I'm sorry about is that I can't die for my country two or three times, over and over."	2. "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."- Nathan Hale

3. "I'll be back someday."	3. "I shall return." -General Douglas MacArthur

4. "Ask what you can do to help your country, not the other way around."	4. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." -John F. Kennedy

5. "The earth wasn't much of anything until God said, 'Lights!' and the lights came on. 'That's good!' He said."	5."And the earth was without form, and void... And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good." - Genesis 1:2-4

6. "It was the best time in history, but it was sort of bad too." Face it, rhetoric's not as "mere" as politicians seem to think.	6."It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." -Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

CONSIDER one of the most perplexing questions of our time:
Where do' solutions go when a candidate gets elected?

Polititics is a lot like religion. Except in politics,
it's youropponent who confesses your sins.

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