[Peace-discuss] Durbin interview

[C. G. Estabrook]

	HENRY: ...Public postures have the configuration
	of private derangement.
	MAX: Who said that?
	HENRY: I did, you fool.
	MAX: I mean first
	HENRY: Oh, first...

	--Tom Stoppard, "The Real Thing"

John W. wrote:
> At 10:52 PM 7/19/2007, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> I like the notion of "holding his little clay feet to the fire"!
> 
> It's a wonderful metaphor, very a propos.  I wonder if either of you 
> knows where it comes from, and what its larger significance is?
> 
>> When there were real universities, the university-educated knew as a 
>> matter of course "corruptio optimi pessima" -- roughly, the worst 
>> corruption was of the potentially best thing.
>>
>> The Republican do what they say they're going to do -- invade and kill 
>> -- and lie about their reasons.  The Democrats don't do what they say 
>> they're going to do -- stop the war -- and lie about their reasons for 
>> it.  The result is that they support the killing, but, in contrast to 
>> the Republicans, they're hypocritical about it.  --CGE
>>
>>
>> Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
>>
>>> What is the point of publicly dissing Durbin???? He's one of the 
>>> (relatively) good guys holding elected office (yes, even tho' he 
>>> wouldn't spill the beans after he learned the "facts" justifying the 
>>> invasion were BS). We should certainly hold his little clay feet to 
>>> the fire, but let's be realistic here. Look what he's/we're up 
>>> against. Russ Feingold wanted to censure the Bush admin for 
>>> deliberate deception leading to the US invasion of Iraq, and not one 
>>> senator would support him. Not one senator condemned Israel for 
>>> attacking Lebanon last year. Let's go after the really bad guys when 
>>> we create our flyers, not the ones who are lots better than most who 
>>> we'd like to be perfect, even tho' it wouldn't make a bit of 
>>> difference if they were, given the present climate. AWARE will have a 
>>> greater impact on folks reading the flyers if they can see the point 
>>> to our criticism.