One of the great zingers in US political history was ultimately a failure. In 1988, Dan Quayle, all thumbs as a politician, was indeed “no Jack Kennedy”. But the line that so lanced him during a televised debate did not stop him being elected vice-president a month later. It is almost as though a mythologised leader from the past is no kind of useful comparator.
美國政治史上的精彩妙語之一最終還是失敗了。1988年，丹?奎爾(Dan Quayle)作為一名表現笨拙的政客，的確“絕不是杰克?肯尼迪(Jack Kennedy)”。但是在電視辯論中如此激怒他的這句話，并沒有阻止他在一個月后當選副總統。就好像一位過去的、已被視為神話般人物的領導者，根本不是有用的參照物。
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