Loki wrote:
Today in history, President Chester Arthur was born in 1822.
Today in history, in 1947, Harry Truman gave the first televised presidential speech. Like the Augean Stables in the labors of Hercules, televised presidential speeches since then have morphed into a mountain of bullshit it would take Hercules far more than one single day to clean up.
Bullshit is the stock in trade for our elected politicians. It would be appropriate if each campaign bus had a large manure spreader behind it, just to remind all voters that they are getting a fair measure of it in every speech.