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To: mountainbunny

“If we dissect the private lives of our leaders and discarded them for their flaws, we would shortly have no leaders at all. Good people can do bad things and still be worthy of honor.”

And such is/was the rationalization of Clinton-freaks.


48 posted on 01/21/2008 1:33:25 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
And such is/was the rationalization of Clinton-freaks.

Are you saying that you can't tell the difference between a flawed-but-great man, and a weasel like Bill Clinton? By your reasoning, we should reject Thomas Jefferson as a leader. He was a deeply flawed man. And George Washington, too. And Ronald Reagan, and well, pretty much everyone, because all men are flawed. The one perfect man isn't running for office this year, so all we're left with is flawed humans.

The difference is that great men recognize their flaws and try to learn from them. Clinton is (as he shows every single day he shamefully shills for his unqualified harpy of a wife) that he was a mediocre president and remains a less-than-stellar person. Clinton does *not* admit to his mistakes (shamefully arguing over the definition of sex or the word "is").

I see a difference between Bill Clinton and Thomas Jefferson. Are you saying that you don't?

59 posted on 01/21/2008 4:06:32 PM PST by mountainbunny
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