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02 Mar 2009, 5:14 pm

Hero or Villain? Discuss.


P.S. That's Winston Churchill, not Randolph.



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02 Mar 2009, 5:40 pm

The more I read about him, the lower my opinion of him becomes.

He had some good one-liners though.



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02 Mar 2009, 5:59 pm

codarac wrote:
The more I read about him, the lower my opinion of him becomes.

He had some good one-liners though.

Crap, I have to agree with Codarac on this one.


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02 Mar 2009, 6:43 pm

Orwell wrote:
codarac wrote:
The more I read about him, the lower my opinion of him becomes.

He had some good one-liners though.

Crap, I have to agree with Codarac on this one.


That drunken, imperialistic bigot Churchill saved England from the likes of Neville Chamberlain. He was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

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02 Mar 2009, 8:59 pm

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That drunken, imperialistic bigot Churchill saved England from the likes of Neville Chamberlain. He was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

I am strongly in favour of the separation of Churchill and state.


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02 Mar 2009, 9:07 pm

I am strongly in favor of quoting Churchill.


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02 Mar 2009, 9:43 pm

Churchill is the worst leader in world history except all the others that have ruled from time to time.


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03 Mar 2009, 9:59 am

Orwell wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
That drunken, imperialistic bigot Churchill saved England from the likes of Neville Chamberlain. He was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

I am strongly in favour of the separation of Churchill and state.


So did the good folks of Britain. And what did they get? Clement Atlee! Ugh! Feh! Britain sank into a pit of Socialism from which it was later rescued by that Super b***h, Magie Thatcher.

There is nothing more feeble and degrading than hearing a bunch of Fabian Socialists singing Blake's hymn -Jerusalem-.

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03 Mar 2009, 10:07 am

ruveyn wrote:
Orwell wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
That drunken, imperialistic bigot Churchill saved England from the likes of Neville Chamberlain. He was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

I am strongly in favour of the separation of Churchill and state.


So did the good folks of Britain. And what did they get? Clement Atlee! Ugh! Feh! Britain sank into a pit of Socialism from which it was later rescued by that Super b***h, Magie Thatcher.

There is nothing more feeble and degrading than hearing a bunch of Fabian Socialists singing Blake's hymn -Jerusalem-.

ruveyn


Where is Maggie now that we need her to kick the begging corporations and financial institutions to kingdom come so that they cannot partake of the socialist bailouts?



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03 Mar 2009, 1:03 pm

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Where is Maggie now that we need her to kick the begging corporations and financial institutions to kingdom come so that they cannot partake of the socialist bailouts?


Gone to senility, I hear. That is too bad. We will need another Iron Woman to do the job.

Some of the mega-corps are welfare bums and socialist whores.

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04 Mar 2009, 5:32 pm

Yeah, screw Clement Attlee and his stupid National Health Service. That thing didn't last very long, did it?

Winston Churchill was voted Greatest Ever Briton in a BBC poll, by the way.



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04 Mar 2009, 9:52 pm

I think he did all right, despite Obama's dislike of him...;)