[ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill Still Influencing Politics

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:49:55 -0700

I'll buy off on the wit  -  as for the rest:  his great friend, Lord Birkenhead said "When Winston is right, he is very right.  When he is wrong, oh my God."
 
Jonathan Hayes
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Winston Churchill was a product of his time with great situational awareness, near flawless reasoning and a wonderful wit... 

 

Walt Linne

 

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What Winston Churchill would do, should do in the context of today's politics is but mere conjecture.  A waste of time.  What he did do or fail to do is what we should look at.  All other exercises are but mere vapor escaping into political nonsense.
 
Richard C. Geschke
 

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:23:24 +0000

I suppose it's too much to ask that people follow our Patron's strictures about never assuming what Churchill would do in a modern situation.  Sometimes it's harmless  -  "would Chuchill Twitter?"  -  but more often it seems to follow the logic pattern:

 

Churchill did things which were courageous and right.

What I am proposing is courageous and right.

Ergo, Churchill would do what I'm proposing.

 

Either nobody is taught logical analysis any more or they don't want to go through the exercise.

 

Jonathan Hayes

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