"Strobe" Talbott

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Sat May 29 10:34:36 PDT 1999


Tom Lehman wrote:


> For you Canadians who are reading this, Talbott is the guy who looks
> like Duke in the Doonsbury cartoons. Strobe Talbott looks to me like a
> fetal alcohol syndrome case, of course I have to reserve judgment
> because I've never seen him in person(?).

So what if he is a fetal alcohol "case". That has nothing to do with his politics or his affiliations. Tom, you know this ??? Your comment reminds me of Marc Cooper denigrating Bob Dole by calling him Captain Hook because Dole's hand was messed up in the war, and Arianna Huffington at the Kosovo Teach-In referring to some of Clinton's advisors as "dwarves."

I know several "dwarves" and they are brighter and more honest than Huffington.

Really people, when is everyone going to finally get it that using someone's body characteristics as a reason to dislike, demean or politically assault them is childish. I would suggest you examine your own hang ups to find out what this inclination is really about.

-- Marta Russell



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