[nfbwatlk] What do you think about this?

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
"in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."  That's where that 
saying comes from.  And I do not think it is very positive toward the blind, 
metaphorically or physically.  I didn't even like that saying when I was 
young, before I was in the NFB.  But now I really do not care for it.  It 
seems to say that even (even is a troublesome word, too) a little sight is 
better than none, which, of course, is not necessarily true.  I've run 
across many blind people in my life who have some vision; just enough to get 
themselves into trouble.
Thanks
Lauren

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "debby phillips" <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 7:57 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] What do you think about this?


> Hi all, I'm just reading my weekly edition of Syndicated Columnists 
> Weekly.  The article that I was reading is the Republican Brain Drain by 
> Richard Cohen.  My comment is not the whole article, just a sentence of 
> it.  Here is that sentence, and please don't get hung up on the Romney 
> part, that's not my point.  This sentence is my point: He is his party's 
> nominee because, like the one-eyed man in the valley of the blind, he is 
> just the best of the worst.  Okay, you may say well, he's using the word 
> blind as a metaphor, but I'm not sure I see it that way.  Wondering what 
> you all think.
>
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