"C. G. Estabrook" wrote:
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> Naturally, the smears began even before the papal conclave was over. The
> London Times, in a shameful piece headlined "Papal hopeful is a former
> Hitler Youth," informs its readers:
I have no particular affection for the RC, but these references to what R was or was not at 14 are worse than smears -- they make the writers look like either gaping readers of the National Inquirer or just plain assholes. What do a person's actions at 14 have to do with who he is 60 years later. So much spam! Even when personal attacks are valid, they are counter-productive from a left perspective. Sometimes lbo-talk reads like material cut as too banal from the last issue of People.
Carrol