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____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 05 Jan 2010 08:55 : \____
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 04 Jan 2010 23:38 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
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>>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 04 Jan 2010 12:16 : \____
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>>>>> I think that the Nobel prize has been permanently undervalued by this
>>>>> precipitous and ill-advised move.
>>>
>>> Yeah. Premature ejaculation, even though his election was historic for
>>> the United States.
>>>
>>>> Maybe time will tell. It's the military industrial complex sending these
>>>> troops; Obama is hopeless when it comes to making decisions at the macro
>>>> level -- those he would deliberately avoid discussing before the election
>>>> (the PR team would guide him).
>>>
>>> Actually, I think Obama is a pretty decent thinker. Certainly much better
>>> than Bush, and certainly more good-oriented than Cheney.
>>>
>>>> They would only show him evidence that's required to have him convinced
>>>> that he does the right thing. It was the same with Blair and Bush.
>>>
>>> I wonder. I don't know about Blair's intellect, but Bush was roundly
>>> deprecated in the New Yorker magazine.
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>> Bush was Pinky, Cheney was...
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>
> Both were/are highly religious, Bush being some kind of evangelical
> protestant, and Blair a practising catholic. I recall that each have
> indicated that god will be their judge with respect to the Iraq
> invasion, a statement I find deeply disturbing in each case.
>
> It seems to encompass an abandonment of responsibility, coupled with a
> superstitious view regarding driving major international policy
> decisions.
>
> Blair was/is highly intelligent, however, it appears to me that his
> judgement is massively impaired by his religious convictions.
These are the convictions which made his wife attracted to him, IIRC.
In the US you have no chance of being elected without at least /pretending/ to be
religious. Any religion would do as long as you're not atheist (the most hated "minority" group
in that country, based on polls... ranked lower than anything).
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