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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Impeachment
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:34:51 -0500

No. I never said I expected Obama to reign in govt.

I try really, really hard to overlook misspellings--I make them myself--but this one is bugging me. Unless it is to be construed as a convoluted double entendre, one tries to "rein in" government as one would rein in a horse. A "reign" is the time of rule of a sovereign king or queen, or such, colloquially used for others also, such as a president who acts as if he were a king, as in, "during the reign of George II."




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