Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the sort of empty compliment a friend of mine once compared to being called โthe coolest Osmond.
Sarah VowellThe people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew. I wouldnโt have been surprised if they had linked arms with a woman in a burka and a Masai warrior, to belt out โItโs a Small World After All,โ flanked by a chorus line of nuns and field-tripping, rainbow-skinned schoolchildren
Sarah VowellThat's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.
Sarah VowellHistory is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.
Sarah Vowell