"That the sun moves round the Earth was once a delusion, and is still an illusion" (Fowler) DeMille, Cecil B (1881-1959) Hollywood producer and director; the B stood for Blount Democrat, Democratic In American politics, Democrat is a noun, Democratic an adjective: Hillary Clinton is a Democrat, and a member of the Democratic party.
For a democrat, this is all profoundly troubling.
At this year's G20 meeting, it was "rightwing" France and Germany which – having described the financial crisis as the result of Anglo-Saxon "light-touch regulation" – demanded more stringent government supervision of offshore banking and hedge funds, while "social democrat" Britain had doubts about the efficacy of interfering with the private sector.
Mr Kennedy was a liberal social democrat who knew what he believed and loved what he knew.
Buhari - who said he was "very confident" of victory - has campaigned as a born-again democrat intent on cleaning up the corrupt politics of the continent's biggest economy and most populous nation.
Assembly members are discussing the proposal from the Social Democrat and Labour party's Alban Maginness and the Democratic Unionist Paul Girvan.
In an attempt to shore up his political base, Chafee formally changed parties to become a Democrat in 2013.
I came away feeling that if I wasn't already a Liberal Democrat, Nick's welcome references to sticking to our own values and beliefs may have been a tad confusing.
When Liberal Democrat thoughts do turn to a new leader after the next general election, Chris Huhne, who finished second to Campbell in this year's contest, or a representative of he younger generation like Nick Clegg will inherit his crown.
But it was also symptomatic of the lack of direction to Liberal Democrat policy or strategy under his leadership.
If anything, it confirmed a growing perception that Kennedy's MPs remained too loyal to him for too long Hurst's book will still find plenty of buyers at Brighton, but not because of a hunger for more scandal about the former Liberal Democrat leader.
