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Always surprised that I so often agree with Ms Paglia. And those who readher. The letter about Palin is instructive. I wonder if Dick Cavette know that Lincoln's debates with Douglas are not strenographis records of what was say but editions highly polished by Horace Greeley's paper. These are who got Lincoln an invitation to Cooper Union, where his impassioned and eloquent speech confirmed Greely's opinion that Lincoln was indeed someone extraordinary. I don't expect Palin--who does not pretend to be an orator but is the best stump speaker I have ever heard--to produce another close to Lincoln. But as Ms Paglia says, I never have the slightest doubt what she means when she says it, and she is usually quite interesting. It will be interrsting to see how she performs when she comes to the conservative conference in DC in later February.
