[Buddha-l] S. Pinker (linguist, cognitive psychologist)

[jkirk]

Sorry----FDR was the best president of the 20th c. , followed perhaps by 
Johnson.
Clinton is terribly flawed because he supported the NAFTA regulations treaty 
or whatever it was, relieving the US of thousands of jobs as manufacture 
fled south of ze border. Clinton was/is a good speaker and was a suporter of 
civil rights but so was Johnson, who did not sell the USA working people 
down the Colorado river to Mexico, and later to China. Johnson's great 
society legislation helped a lot of poor, ill-educated citizens.
There is no evidence that either president was influenced by Buddhism, but 
they were influenced by the best of the humanist and/or Christian 
philosophies of good works. As were their famous wives.
I cannot take Hillary seriously even though she's a good orator. She's only 
a pol.
Joanna
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From: "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] S. Pinker (linguist, cognitive psychologist)


> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 20:49 -0400, Stanley J. Ziobro II wrote:
>
>> Yes, an less likely to be wrong than Bill Clinton was in so much of his
>> presidency.
>
> Clinton was wronged far more often than he was wrong. I would have no
> trouble ranking him the second or third best president in the 20th
> century, Carter being the best. The best president of the 21st century,
> I think, will be Hilary Clinton--unless we can find some Buddhist to
> run. (Sorry, folks, I decline to run, unless Steven Lane will be my
> campaign manager.)
>
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