What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have one!

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Contributing greatly to the perception of Quayle's incompetence was his tendency to make public statements which were [...] painfully confused and inappropriate, as when he addressed the United Negro College Fund, whose slogan is “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”, Quayle said “You take the United Negro College Fund model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is”. [emphasis added]

Painfully confused and inappropriate? Most certainly. And yet, Dan Quayle, former Senator from the state of Indiana and the forty-fourth Vice President of the United States, was stunningly predictive. To paraphrase one of Obama's own slogans — Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama be the wastes that Quayle's malapropism foretold.

What is left to say about Carter? He is either truly malevolent, which he successfully disguised in the 1970's, or he is senile, or he is on quaaludes, or all of the above. In any case, he has indeed lost his mind. He needs to be ignored with extreme prejudice or terminated with extreme sarcasm.

As for Obama, who is running for Carter's second term, Mark Steyn observes, "By the time Obama wrapped up his “victory” speech last week, the great gaseous uplift had his final paragraphs floating in delirious hallucination along the Milky Way", viz.

“I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people … I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal […] this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation.”

Doesn't sound like “profound humility” to me. “Rise of the oceans began to slow”? Is he affecting the powers of Moses, in addition to those of the Messiah? If that's the case, perhaps he should reconsider his stance vis-a-vis I'madinnerjacket.

No doubt, it occurs to anyone who pays attention to the meaning of words spoken, as opposed to how they sound, why remake a nation that is acknowledged to be great? I guess Mr. Profundity hasn't heard the common expression: Don't fix it if it ain't broke!

Yikes.