Voltaire quote<\/a> is “The perfect is the enemy of the good,” translated from the French, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” (The literal translation actually should be, “The best is the enemy of the good.”)<\/p>\nThis brings me to my latest double limerick: <\/p>\n
Dear Obama, Enough With The Voltaire!
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
There once was a guy named Voltaire,
\nA Frenchman whose wisdom pols share.
\nThey say, “Perfect, though fine,
\nIs hardly divine
\nWhen it blocks the essential. So there!”<\/p>\n
Dear Obama, this line is just guff —
\nAn excuse for not doing enough.
\nSo instead of excuses,
\nFight right-wing abuses.
\nVoltaire is annoying. Hang tough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting really tired of this line frequently used by Obama and other pols: \u201cAmerica can’t afford to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Obama usually uses this Voltaire paraphrase as an excuse to disappoint progressives yet again. The original Voltaire quote is “The perfect is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,95,41,81,1147,1146,154,6,7,3,520,467,17],"tags":[2792,1148,1139,1140,1145,1142,1149,1141],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44-humor","category-barack-obama","category-blame-game","category-democrats-satire","category-excuses-satire","category-philosophy-humor","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-quote-of-the-day","category-washington","category-white-house","tag-barack-obama","tag-excuses-humor","tag-francois-marie-arouet","tag-french-philosophers","tag-philosophy-satire","tag-progressives","tag-right-wing-abuses","tag-voltaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}