We grant that we have no way of really knowing what lawmakers may have said privately to Clinton.
Still, all but the most outré of political thinkers would have to grant that we are far from the crushing, violent, single-party totalitarian regime of Orwell's imagination.
I'll grant that we both have shaved heads, but I'm a half Cajun guy with a southeast Texas accent that sometimes gets so thick that I sound like a character from the TV show "Hee Haw".
Oh God, in wrath take vengeance against this wicked, treacherous and lying woman: take vengeance upon her, oh Lord, and grant that we shall see a demonstration of thy power!" Even Ed Miliband does not address the prime minister like that.
While the Stones sang "the time is right for fighting in the streets," the Beatles grant that "we all want to change the world," but as for fighting for political change, "you can count me out" and "you better free your mind instead".
The first grant that we received from the National Endowment for the Humanities, in fact, contained a similar provision, and we were able to secure a gift that entitled us then to the matching funds from NEH, and that we hope to do again.
But there's been a massive decline in the grant that we've been given.
God grant that we can spend next year's Christmas together again".
