smarter than some politicians

“The archers shot so marvelously that when the horses felt the barbed arrows some would not go forwards.  Some would leap into the air as if maddened, some bucked horribly, and others turned their rumps towards the enemy, regardless of their masters, because of the arrows they felt.”  Written in about 1352, we can conclude from this painful account,  that even horses, turning their asses to the enemy as an intelligent tactic, are smarter than some politicians today who cannot figure out what to do when the slings and arrows of misfortune continuously fly from liberals at us – the enemy.