by Aaron » Thu 16 Jun 2005, 23:02:46
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hose quotes you pulled up are unfair and are akin to pointing to GWB's youthful alcoholic coke binges and saying that they define the man today.
But I do think GWB's past made him the man he is today.
And everybody else.
I acknowledge that Gandhi may have turned a corner on being a racist, later in his life. And good for him... but I think "great spirit" might be
gelding 
the Lilly a bit.
And what was the stuff about encouraging the Jews to remain in Nazi Germany whatever the consequences? Solidarity is one thing... but that's just obscene IMO.
While the apparent fixation on enemas and abstinence while sleeping with naked women isn't really evil, I'm pretty sure I would not want him sniffing around my daughter ya know?
I just found it interesting to see valid criticism of these iconic figures of pop-mythology.
You should see what they said about the Dali Lamma...
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt, but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise... economics is a form of brain damage.
Hazel Henderson