Interesting point. The church maybe deserves credit for Darwin, too
(and the british regime in India for Gandhi, the communist regime in the
Sovietunion
for Gorbachev, the apartheid regime in South Africa for Nelson Mandela,..)
Perhaps every great reformer needs a suppressing regime which goes wrong.
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Abbott
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:23 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] Bush deserves credit for Obama
and not in the snide way you think. Much as I dislike Bush, I think that he
did a lot--positively--to set the stage for an Obama victory. In particular,
his appointment of Colin Powell and Condolesa Rice as Secretaries of State
legitimized in the public mind the image of a black person holding high
government office.
-- Russ
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