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Absalom, Absalom?

At his first post-Argentina-cabinet meeting, Gov. Sanford explains that his decision going forward will have a Biblical basis:

I have been doing a lot of soul searching on that front. What I find interesting is the story of David, and the way in which he fell mightily, he fell in very very significant ways. But then picked up the pieces and built from there.

When Faulkner reworked the whole problems-with-King David’s family thing, he set part of it in Haiti. Haiti, Argentina, what’s the difference?

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7 comments to Absalom, Absalom?

  • Hambone

    NMC, how was the Hill country picnic? Picked up Elvis Costello’s new record. Because it was produced by T-Bone Burnett, and peopled with great session players, i.e., Jerry Douglas, I built up my expectations. Mistake. Costello’s melodies just sound awkward to me. Despite his many successes, Burnett produces some stinkers from time to time. I was disapointed in the record he produced for Cassandra Wilson also.

  • Tightlip

    A love story indeed. This guy doesn’t know when to shut up.

  • fishwater

    Heard that, Tight Lip!

  • Ben

    Sanford failed to note that in “picking up the pieces,” David whacked Bathsheba’s husband and took the grieving widow as his own. Sanford wasn’t the first man with a “Bathsheba problem.” He won’t be the last. Such an easy and inviting problem to get into, literally and figuratively, but such a difficult one to get out of….

    Perhaps you’d like for me to ‘splain acid rain to you some mo’.

  • NMC

    Shhh! Don’t invite that thread into this discussion, Ben.

  • RazorRedux

    I tend to think it more appropriate had Sanford cited Humpty Dumpty than David.

  • HolyJoe

    When all else fails make it Biblical…. Jim Bakker is probably his spiritual advisor! I’ll take a Al Franken any day of the week!

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