[Milton-L] Is this Milton allusion apt?

[Carrol Cox]

James Rovira wrote:
> 
> 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.

Evil is an uninteresting metaphysical concept, but that aside, both
McCain and Obama are candidates for the nearest equivalent in the world
today of Satan. Chomsky once remarked, when asked what he would do if he
were president, "I would order myself arrested as a war criminal." It's
part of the job description.

Carrol