July 13, 2012 - 8:45 am
Amidst recent rumors that Condoleezza Rice may get Mitt Romney’s nod for the vice presidency, it’s worth acknowledging that Rice would be pretty much the most accomplished person in high elected office in our country in recent years, possibly ever. She is a Russian literature scholar, fluent in the language, and a classical pianist at a professional or near-professional level. (The thought of her debating Joe Biden has definite comic overtones.) Here she is playing Schumann’s Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 with cellist Kjell Stenberg just last May:
If you’re looking for sheer volume of accomplishments by a Vice President, it’s very hard to beat Theodore Roosevelt.
But I must admit that Roosevelt did not play the piano.
Theodore (no one ever called him “Teddy”) was better at wars, though. His orders to Dewey to go to Manilla, for instance, and re: his charge up the hill in Cuba–he did that himself, after all.
An Préachán
As much as I love classical (real) music, this YouTube blurb is hilarious.
Even the EXIT sign and closed umbrellas through the window are funny.
Congratulations, Roger.
Even Saul Alinsky would applaud the ridicule.
Jefferson played the violin, till he damaged his hand. Considering the fact that ge luved in a world where information was harder to come by, I’m giving him the nod.
“he lived”, not “ge luved”, which, of course, is Chaucerian Middle English, before spellings became standardized with the rise of London…
Hell, I thought that was a typo.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/please_no_rice_with_that_romney.html