10-12-2008, 01:34 PM
Cliff Varnell Wrote:Allow me to put this another way -- your failure to recognize W. Averell Harriman as the apex of your model is a serious mis-reading of history.
His retainer's son and grandson held the White House for 12 years.
His wife put Bill Clinton in the White House.
http://www.anusha.com/pamela-h.htm
And that was all after Harriman was well cold in his grave...
I await proof of your claim. And the burden of proof rests with you.
Until then, please broaden and deepen your focus.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
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-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
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Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene