tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911334903016795718.post580678263880376376..comments2023-07-06T10:55:44.311+02:00Comments on Attempted Essays: Project Guttenberg III: The Minister ResignsFrancis Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00422476000328664994noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911334903016795718.post-41571513635659048202011-03-02T06:16:36.897+01:002011-03-02T06:16:36.897+01:00If we're to name past offenders, I would say t...If we're to name past offenders, I would say that impeached President Clinton certainly used the White House Oval Office in a contemptible manner. He lied his teeth out. But he didn't resign. It was a great morality lesson to American children.<br /><br />Actually Guttenberg didn't say he resigned because he cheated for his thesis. It's not the shame of his action but the intensity of the criticism which pushed him to the brink. He had "no energy left to fight" and to do his job. I'm just repeating what I read he said.<br /><br />Probably, doctorate or not, he will return to political life. He will just wait patiently for the call to serve his country again, to the best of his abilities.<br /><br />As much as I have faith in the individual soul of a few people, I'm very sceptical about the political soul of any country (my own, Canada, included). Expediency is often the law of the land. That's why, in this sad case, there was so much hesitancy about the proper course of action.<br /><br />Francis <i>chéri</i>, (returning your compliment) I don't think that <i>the learned needed more time</i>. They simply had a big problem to recognise, in public, their own sin in granting so easily a doctorate to a fake thesis.<br /><br />À votre santé!:)Claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06775039539331403794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911334903016795718.post-81295112603783543292011-03-02T00:36:01.608+01:002011-03-02T00:36:01.608+01:00Well he had to go, but very poor form on Merkel...Well he had to go, but very poor form on Merkel's part for not making him resign in the first place. After Hamburg and this, it'll be interesting to see what happens in the upcoming state elections.<br /><br />Looking at zu Guttenberg's future, I'm reminded of Franz Josef Strauss in 1962. In 1966, four years after he resigned, he was back in government. It seems the CSU can be quite forgiving of its star politicians...Twisting the Spannerhttp://twistingthespanner.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911334903016795718.post-74454500795143687332011-03-01T22:10:29.687+01:002011-03-01T22:10:29.687+01:00Tom DeLay continued as Speaker of the House in the...<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/24/tom-delay-guilty-money-laundering_n_788325.html" rel="nofollow">Tom DeLay</a> continued as Speaker of the House in the US Senate for years in spite of all sorts of criminal behavior. Nobody in recent US governments has been known to resign a post out of shame.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16747450215034568033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1911334903016795718.post-14871510522813619412011-03-01T20:42:53.767+01:002011-03-01T20:42:53.767+01:00I really like "the learned often need more ti...I really like "the learned often need more time...." "<br /><br />I thought that my indecisiveness was just because I had so much messy and irrelevant data in my brain, and maybe the old CPU slows down a bit over time. :)Colleenhttp://comix.dorkage.netnoreply@blogger.com