Open Mic MONDAY 28th SEPTEMBER + Political Caption Competition

POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY:
Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 BCE

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
-Plato

TDB POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
Promises take flight
Six weeks to capture a nation
November decides

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