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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98817)2/5/2005 1:50:45 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793691
 
If I made a similar comparison between FDR and Stalin, both master communicators, would you consider that apt?

Of course. If both are great communicators and you compare them on that basis, I don't see how that could be anything but apt. If, OTOH, you compared the two of them on the basis of their humanitarian ways, then that would be singularly inapt.

As for unfair, that's another matter. Fairness would be a function of what use you made of the comparison.

There are tight limits as to what is "apt" when comparing the elected leader of a democracy to the autocratic ruler-for-life of a totalitarian state.

I don't see why that would be any more so than when comparing one elected leader of a democracy with another elected leader of a democracy. Either the parties have the specified feature in common or they don't.
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