Talk:Betsy McCaughey Ross

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I rewrote the No Exit paragraph and dropped this:

Ross herself was heavily criticized for her analysis of the Clinton plan and called a Cassandra for her warnings.

I know the misuse of the "Cassandra" metaphor is rampant that I am never going to make a difference here, but nonetheless: In classical literature, Cassandra had the gift of prophecy and the curse of not being believed by anyone. Thus, when she forecast something awful (such as the murder of Agamemnon), her warnings would be disregarded and the catastrophe would happen. The McCaughey article was, if anything, the inverse of a Cassandra warning: she predicted that the Clinton health plan, if enacted, would be a disaster (denied by the plan supporters) but her warning was a key factor in the plan's defeat. Ellsworth 21:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)