Friday’s Wall Street Journal featured an editorial titled “King Canute at the G-8.”
Unfamiliar with King Canute? He was the Viking king of England, Denmark, Norway and Sweden a thousand years ago.
According to legend, he stepped into the ocean and ordered the tide to recede. When it didn’t, he realized the impotence of mere mortals – even kings – in comparison to the world in which we live.
“Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings,” Canute said, “for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth and sea obey by eternal laws.”
As the Jounal points out, the leaders of the G-8 have yet to learn what Canute learned a thousand years ago. They still think they can order the world to cool, to warm, to fetch the sticks they throw.
Especially the one known throughout the land as King Obama. Verily.
Source: John Stossel
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