Hi, holmes.
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Admittedly I have rather little respect for either....
Well, let me clarify -- when I said "respect" I was referring to that minimal amount of respect that any human being is entitled to, not necessarily anything more than that. Although, now that you have said it, I suppose that it is possible that I might like either gentleman if they were my neighbors, heh.
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Perhaps there are different types of respect.
Probably true. I seem to remember some time ago we were commenting in another thread about the difference between respecting someone willing to risk her life for any cause and someone willing to risk her life for a cause that we also believe in. I suppose there is a great difference in the respect I would feel for, say, a suicide bomber willing to die for his cause, respect for Mahatma Ghandi, many of whose ideals I would share, and respect for George Bush if he were just my jovial, goofy neighbor who can't seem to run a business successfully.
But this may be getting far afield from where you wanted this thread to go.
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