[Milton-L] Is this Milton allusion apt?

[James Rovira]

No, the allusion is not apt.  Forgetting that the people they're
talking about are human beings, they lose a little bit of their
humanity themselves.  McCain isn't Satan, and even Obama knows that.

Jim R

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Nancy Charlton <pastorale55 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Did you all see this in the NY Times today? It's in the "comments" (#260
> following an opinion piece titled "The Real John McCain" and singled out in
> a sidebar:
>
> The RNC has exposed John McCain's true face--he's Dorian Gray, he's Faust,
> he's Satan in Paradise Lost. Except that Milton was a far superior
> speechwriter to the hacks paid by the McCain campaign. Whoever said
> Faust/Palin '08 above said it right--or maybe Faust/Stalin '08 is more
> accurate. What a joke.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/opinion/05fri1.html
>