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

To: Neocon who wrote (139430)	4/19/2001 5:50:05 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Gotta go, see ya!

To: Neocon who wrote (139430)	4/19/2001 6:00:31 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Disreputable? Perhaps. It is really difficult for me to harshly criticize it on the one hand, and on the other I can, I must, brutally condemn it. I am reticent to harshly criticize it because given the same circumstances I am not sure how I myself would behave. I have been in similarly uncomfortable situations and each time performed admirably, if I must say so myself. But my thinking is clearly shaped by my time. I respect myself much too much to own a person, and that alone would militate against my abusing another person in the way Jefferson likely did with Hemings. But Jefferson had no such self-perspective because owning humans was quite acceptable during his time. He certainly sensed the evil of slavery, but was too weak to do anything directly about it. Moreover, he may have had some strong emotional attachment to Hemings and she to him. It may not have been “predatory” in the way that often occurred with slave owners. Indeed I think there is a little evidence that supports this bit of speculation. His holding his rather racist views on “racial amalgamation” would have made his relationship with Hemings very torturous to say the least. It was apparently quite a difficult matter. Unlike Clinton’s rather straightforward circumstances. (ding)