doesn't make you on par with Winston Churchill.
Well, I read in the newspaper the other day, that someone at the Repulican party convention had compared George Dubya Bush favourably as on par with Winston Churchill as a great war-time leader.
PULLLUEEEEEASSSSE!
Winston Churchill managed to rally a disheartened nation to his side, through his fiery rhetoric. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest war-time leaders ever. George Dubya, on the other hand, manages to mumble stuff about "evil-doers" and split the nation almost evenly on the attributes of his leadership.
Can anyone in the Republican party spell "h-y-p-e-r-b-o-l-e"? If so, do they know what it means?
After the humiliating and dangerous loss at Dunkirk, Churchill rallied a nation with this speech:
"... Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, weshall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. "
-- Address to the House of Commons
June 4, 1940
Quite different than George W. Bush mumbling about evil-doers and saying that "if you aren't for us, then you're against us", isn't it?
JW