Christine O'Donnell, the candidate for a senate seat from Delaware, appeared recently on television and declared that she is not a witch. Some years ago she admitted that she "dabbled into witchcraft."
As a rule I believe that most people are what they claim they are not:
If a person says, "I am NOT cheap", do not go out with him, because you will wind up paying the bill.
If someone says "I am NOT stupid", chances are good that he is not smart, either.
Every day hundreds of people plead in court: "NOT guilty." Are most of them really innocent?
We had a President who claimed NOT to be a crook. He was, and was impeached for it. The same President declared that he is NOT a quitter a short time before he quit the Presidency.
Another President said that he "did NOT have sex with that woman" -- he did.
Nevertheless I believe Christine when she says that she is not a witch. To me she is a sad joke and an embarasment. She operates using as a guideline the observation of Henry Louis Mencken that "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
10/18/2010
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