David S. Broder of the Washington Post sez (registration required for full column):
The next question came from a man wearing the campaign button of Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Edwards had salted his speech with a Reaganesque line expressing the hope that the United States would once again be seen by the world “as that shining city on the hill, a beacon of freedom and democracy.”
Mr. Broder, but wasn’t Mr. Reagan, Esq., quoting Johnny Winthrop, who was really quoting Matthew 5:14?
Life must have been so much easier when you were writing for un-educated, non-Googleabled rabble, wot?
(Thanks to Dr. Thomas Prendergast at Marquette University for the pointer. Because my section of Early American Philosophy came early in the morning, I was still awake, and because Winthrop came early in the semester, I was caught up in the reading before I gave up the struggle.)
