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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98817)	2/5/2005 1:50:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793690

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.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (98817)	2/6/2005 10:54:54 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793690

I can think of a lot of parallels between Stalin and FDR. Most of them would have to do with state control of private enterprise. Stalin and FDR did, in fact, get along well when in each other's company. Many would argue that FDR actually admired Stalin. On the other hand, I do agree that Shafer's piece on Bush and Kim Jung Il in Slate is just plain nasty. Take, as one egregious example, "He shouts his paeans to "liberty" and "freedom" (a combined 27 times during last night's State of the Union speech, according to today's Washington Post) while reducing civil liberties at home." What civil liberties have been reduced at home? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? It's just brainless leftist sloganeering. These guys are sooooo stupid, they're boring.