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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (139347)	4/19/2001 2:11:09 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Neo, I personally don't care about the President's personal life, as long as he has his wits about him on the job. Sexual frustration does not tend to promote good decisions. Many cultures understand this and provide for their leaders. Scumbria

To: Neocon who wrote (139347)	4/19/2001 5:35:25 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, I think we have good reason not to be overly critical of Jefferson. I think he almost certainly did have a thing with Hemings. It fits his character and both the anecdotal as well as DNA evidence support the claim. But his circumstances were markedly different from those of Bill Clinton. Hemings was by all accounts very attractive and she was unfortunately Jefferson’s property. Imagine literally owning a lovely woman and having her before you every day you are at home. I don’t condone Jefferson’s fornication, mind you. But I think I can understand it. I think Jefferson was a victim of a somewhat weak character, Mother Nature and the corrupting influences of slavery. I think Bill Clinton, on the other hand, was simply a baldfaced liar and a lecher. The two ought not be compared. *** Awhile back Branford Marsalis did a bunch of these little romantic ditties, one of which was Faure’s Pavane. I’ve had these for a bit and never once opened them because somehow the idea of Faure’ and sax repulses me. I’m listening to them now, and I gotta tell you—they ain’t bad. He did the work with what sounds to me a soprano sax. The sound has fewer overtones than alto or tenor, and I think is better suited to the classics than other lower saxes. I yet think sax has no place with an orchestra, except for Milhaud’s work and a few others.