A Year 2000 Prophecy

Posted on August 8, 2004 in Campaign 2004 Humor? Mailbox

Prophecy can be devastating and bite the recipient in unexpected ways. This reminds me of the twisted ways that the utterances of the Oracle at Delphi sometimes came true with Oedipus running away from his “parents” so that he wouldn’t kill his father and marry his mother or the fateful “Trust in the wooden walls” remark which led to the Athenean victory over the Persians at Salamis. John Lettiere send this along:

“Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted
for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose
millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched.”

“You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I’ll be damned
if all those things didn’t come true.”

Unknown Author