Great piece here from Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek, comparing Hillary Clinton's speech the other night to "the perfect country and western song" David Allen Coe spoke about in his sone "You Never Even Called me by my Name."
Karol (who doesn't share my taste for much country'n'western music)
has heard me sing these lyrics several times, just for fun. So this
morning when she read parts of Hillary Clinton's speech to the
Democratic National Convention, she exclaimed "This reminds me of that
David Allan Coe song you're always singing!"
And Karol's correct. Sen. Clinton's speech
is predictably full of typical political nonsense, posturing, and
hubris pretending to be humility. In this sense, it's a really good
political speech. But her inclusion of these lyrics are what make it
the perfect political speech: Go there to read why. Especially if you have never heard the lyrice to that song. They are classic.


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