[Am-info] Re: Jesse James

[John J. Urbaniak]

sturde@az.com wrote:

> In <20020423223401.71AAF29B9C@lists.essential.org>, on 04/23/02
>    at 06:34 PM, am-info-request@venice.essential.org said:
>
> >At least Jesse mostly only stole from the rich.  gates steals from
> >everyone.
>
> Don't knock Jesse James.  He represents a powerful element of the American
> psyche.  Judge Jackson called him a man with a Napoleon complex.  He, like
> Bill Clinton is an ultimate narcicist, i.e. utterly self-centered.
> Clinton in Newsweek stating that he should not have pardoned the
> billionaire, Rich, whose former wife he had schtuped (pardon my Yiddish),
> not because it was wrong, but because it "tarnished" his reputation.  And
> now we have Billie admitting that he used his monopoly power to screw
> competitors.
>
> His testifying made me think of the movie Point of Order which was about
> the Army v. Joe McCarthy hearings.  The Boston Brahmin lawyer, whose name
> escapes me,

Cohn?  Was it Samuel Cohn?


> asking Senator McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency?"  I
> wonder if Billie's testimony might be a watershed event such as the
> hearings.
>

Your points are valid.  No one counts but Gates and his insatiable desire for
more and more, combined with his unbounded fear that he may not be able to
have it all, and that someone else might get a little bit.

John