NOT just another anti-Obama screed...(UPDATED)

Many listeners (hyperbole) have informed me that my insight into hypocrisy seems to have a vaguely familiar ring to it - so succinct, so witty, so pedantic, so, well, french intellectual.

Thus, having previously groused about the sanctity of intellectual property (See, Afghanistan, Graveyard etc.), I do acknowledge my cribbing from the Nobleman Francis de La Rochefoucauld

born, Paris, France (1613 - 1680), who published a book (still in print today) devoted exclusively to short insights into life - kind of similar to writing a blog offering nothing but random thoughts!

Anyway, this brilliant philosopher stated in 1671 (exacting 300 years prior to my matriculation at DC): "Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue". Of course, I didn't do the full translation, so he might have used the word "honor" instead of "homage", but who really cares, now that I have revealed my lack of original thinking. Just saying...