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Originally posted by james t kirk
Actually, i have to agree with Sixate on this one.
I just didn't know this about churchill or fdr, not that that changes my mind about either of them being great leaders though.
Though supposedly, some of churchill's famous WW2 speaches were written by the canadian guy who wrote winnie the pooh
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Kirk... A.A.Milne was born and raised in the UK... the bear he based the stories on was from Winnipeg...
I don't think the point of this list is to say... damn that FDR and Churchill were freaks and Hitler was a gem.
I think the point is that, in this day and age we tend to judge our politician by their surface activities and shouldn't.
So what if Bush did cocaine in college... So what if Clinton got head in the Oval office (antechamber whatever)...
The media (and by association us) spend too much time judging politicians private lives or what they did in the past. These are not neccessarily what defines the man (or woman as the case may be).
They should be judged on their political record.
As someone pointed out above, would you really choose your leader based on the provided information alone? I would hope not. Unfortunately, the media that provides us with the information we require to make this decision focus increasingly on the surface and seldom look beyond.