Speak loudly and carry a small stick » » Crooked Timber-Posted by John Holbo
Everyone is amused by our President’s procilivity for finding things ‘unacceptable’. (As in: you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does.) nice. princess bride, wally shawn right? Inconceivable!

Josh Marshall said it, back in early 2003: Speak softly and carry a big stick. Or, speak loudly and carry a big stick. Or maybe even speak softly and get by with a small stick. But, for God’s sake, don’t speak loudly and carry a small stick. And yet that’s precisely what President Bush has been doing on the Korean Peninsula issue for two years
Wait, it’s coming to me in a vision: speak sensibly, and carry a medium-sized stick and a medium-sized carrot (which was the fashion at the time). Damn, we all pretty much miss the Clinton years, don’t we? (You can make jokes about Clinton’s carrot if you like. Doesn’t change a thing.)

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Vezzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable!
Inigo: You keep using that word.I do not think it means what you think it means.