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...sister's public high school, one organization gave students "chastity cards" the size of business cards which conveniently fit into wallets in the places that condoms ordinarily might. Inscribed on the back, above a line on which the bearer was asked to symbolically attest to his or her commitment, were written the following words...
Hogue takes this passage as follows: "The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt, the evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition: according to the prediction another falls at night time, conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany...
...addition to the utter vagueness of this passage, two major problems with Houge's interpretation present themselves. First, who is the "bearer of a petition?" No doubt one would expect a character similar to the intrepid Artemidorus in Julius Caesar, who stands outside the Senate waiting to give the doomed Caesar a written warning of his demise. But whom does Hogue submit? "Jeane Dixon, one of the foremost prophets of modern times" who claims to have predicted the Kennedy assassination. A little shaky...
...longtime Democratic officeholder calls her campaign "a catastrophe." The 1997 race for mayor is to New York what the 1984 race for President was to the country at large. And Messinger is Walter Mondale--a thoughtful, well-meaning politician with the great misfortune of being liberalism's standard bearer as liberalism collapses...
While some of Forbes' rhetoric has changed, his views still make him unacceptable as the standard-bearer for that wing of the party. He will not push for a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion altogether. "You have to recognize that in a democracy, people are not with you yet, and therefore you have to persuade," he says. So leaders like James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who met with him one on one, come away disappointed. As Dobson's lieutenant Gary Bauer puts it, "We're way too far down the road to be satisfied with snappy applause lines...