Crocodile Tears?
January 5, 2016
Lew: The TV news channels kept telling us that Obama “wept” during his announcement of circumventing the Constitution. I didn’t see any tears, only his occasional touching of one of his eyes. When I saw this, I was immediately reminded of the closing scene in the Spencer Tracy/ Katharine Hepburn classic film Adam’s Rib. Tracy showed that he could generate tears-at-will, a talent not confined to Hollywood actors!
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
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