Comments on: Most Admired Men and Women http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=most-admired-men-and-women News & Commentary About All Things Baptist Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:32:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Dan Trabue http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html#comment-554 Dan Trabue Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:02:00 +0000 http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/?p=148#comment-554 Wow. I'm supposing this indicates how much having your name in the news contrbutes to being thought of when asked about popularity.<br /><br />There's no way Bush or H. Clinton should be that high. Wow. I’m supposing this indicates how much having your name in the news contrbutes to being thought of when asked about popularity.

There’s no way Bush or H. Clinton should be that high.

]]> By: Michael Westmoreland-White http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html#comment-552 Michael Westmoreland-White Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:55:00 +0000 http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/?p=148#comment-552 Oops! For some reason my id doesn't show up. The last two entries and this one are from me, Michael Westmoreland-White. I don't do anonymous comments, believing them to be cowardly. But, since somehow they went that way, I will give the commenter in #1 the benefit of the doubt and wonder if that was a computer error, too. Oops! For some reason my id doesn’t show up. The last two entries and this one are from me, Michael Westmoreland-White. I don’t do anonymous comments, believing them to be cowardly. But, since somehow they went that way, I will give the commenter in #1 the benefit of the doubt and wonder if that was a computer error, too.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html#comment-550 Anonymous Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:54:00 +0000 http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/?p=148#comment-550 If my list included Ronald Reagan, I would sign this anonymously, too! I mean, we are talking about a man who (a) gave us 2 recessions during his presidency and whopping national debt, (b)brought us repeatedly to the edge of nuclear war with the USSR, (c)illegally mined the harbors of Nicaragua and financed an illegal guerilla war there, (d)allowed AIDS to go unchecked for years as long as it was just a "gay disease," (e) killed the ERA, (f) lowered U.S. human rights standards (setting a great example for W) and began the rollback of U.S. Civil Rights gains, (g) allowed his henchmen and wife (through her astrologers) to run the country while he took naps because he wouldn't admit to Alzheimer's, (h) began the assault of U.S. jurisprudence that has continued non-stop in a rightwing direction. I could go on. What a horrible man to admire.<br/> But what is more horrible is how many people on that list admire Condaleeza Rice! Even before she became a shill for W, she had oil tankers named after her. Ugh! If my list included Ronald Reagan, I would sign this anonymously, too! I mean, we are talking about a man who (a) gave us 2 recessions during his presidency and whopping national debt, (b)brought us repeatedly to the edge of nuclear war with the USSR, (c)illegally mined the harbors of Nicaragua and financed an illegal guerilla war there, (d)allowed AIDS to go unchecked for years as long as it was just a “gay disease,” (e) killed the ERA, (f) lowered U.S. human rights standards (setting a great example for W) and began the rollback of U.S. Civil Rights gains, (g) allowed his henchmen and wife (through her astrologers) to run the country while he took naps because he wouldn’t admit to Alzheimer’s, (h) began the assault of U.S. jurisprudence that has continued non-stop in a rightwing direction. I could go on. What a horrible man to admire.
But what is more horrible is how many people on that list admire Condaleeza Rice! Even before she became a shill for W, she had oil tankers named after her. Ugh!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html#comment-549 Anonymous Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:44:00 +0000 http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/?p=148#comment-549 How depressing. Both W and Hillary are power-hungry sacks of naked ambition. Sen. Clinton, like her husband, is MUCH smarter than Bush and would generally try to to help people more than W. But, like her husband AND W, she has no moral center and when push comes to shove, she will cave to political survival rather than stand on principle.<br/><br/><br/>My most admired men and women(living only):<br/>Men:<br/>10. Muhammed Yunus, Banker to the Poor<br/>9. Nelson Mandela<br/>8. Fmr. Pres. Jimmy Carter<br/>7. Rabbi Michael Lerner<br/>6. Dr. Glen H. Stassen<br/>5. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)<br/>4. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)<br/>3. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)<br/>2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu<br/>1. Vaclav Havel, Fmr. Prez. of Czech Republic and leader of Czechoslavakia's nonviolent revolution from Communism.<br/><br/>Women:<br/>10. Cindy Sheehan, peace mom.<br/>9. Medea Benjamin, founder of Global Exchange (works for economic justice) and of Code Pink for Peace<br/>8. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's nonviolent struggle for democracy against mlitary rule.<br/>7. Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, feminist Catholic theologian and peace activist.<br/>6.Dr. Molly T. Marshall, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary<br/>5. Phyllis Bennis, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies--combines work on foreign policy and Middle East studies with peace activism. She has the qualifications and the brilliance so that if a Democrat wins the presidency of the U.S. in '08, they should nominate Bennis for Secretary of State.<br/>4. Dr. Ann Riggs, Quaker theologian and Associate General Secretary for Faith and Order, National Council of Churches, USA.<br/>3. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)<br/>2. Rev. Cindy Weber, my pastor--Pastor, Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty<br/>1. Rev. Nancy Hastings Sehested, co-pastor of Circle of Mercy, Asheville, NC.<br/><br/>If I were counting the dead, I would have a much harder time narrowing to a list as short as 10. But my list still wouldn't look much like the worldly values shown in that dumb list. How depressing. Both W and Hillary are power-hungry sacks of naked ambition. Sen. Clinton, like her husband, is MUCH smarter than Bush and would generally try to to help people more than W. But, like her husband AND W, she has no moral center and when push comes to shove, she will cave to political survival rather than stand on principle.

My most admired men and women(living only):
Men:
10. Muhammed Yunus, Banker to the Poor
9. Nelson Mandela
8. Fmr. Pres. Jimmy Carter
7. Rabbi Michael Lerner
6. Dr. Glen H. Stassen
5. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
4. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
3. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
2. Archbishop Desmond Tutu
1. Vaclav Havel, Fmr. Prez. of Czech Republic and leader of Czechoslavakia’s nonviolent revolution from Communism.

Women:
10. Cindy Sheehan, peace mom.
9. Medea Benjamin, founder of Global Exchange (works for economic justice) and of Code Pink for Peace
8. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s nonviolent struggle for democracy against mlitary rule.
7. Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, feminist Catholic theologian and peace activist.
6.Dr. Molly T. Marshall, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary
5. Phyllis Bennis, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies–combines work on foreign policy and Middle East studies with peace activism. She has the qualifications and the brilliance so that if a Democrat wins the presidency of the U.S. in ’08, they should nominate Bennis for Secretary of State.
4. Dr. Ann Riggs, Quaker theologian and Associate General Secretary for Faith and Order, National Council of Churches, USA.
3. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
2. Rev. Cindy Weber, my pastor–Pastor, Jeff Street Baptist Community at Liberty
1. Rev. Nancy Hastings Sehested, co-pastor of Circle of Mercy, Asheville, NC.

If I were counting the dead, I would have a much harder time narrowing to a list as short as 10. But my list still wouldn’t look much like the worldly values shown in that dumb list.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/2006/12/most-admired-men-and-women.html#comment-548 Anonymous Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.thebigdaddyweave.com/?p=148#comment-548 I'm surprised Billy Graham is not higher. Ronald Reagan would have to be high on my list. I’m surprised Billy Graham is not higher. Ronald Reagan would have to be high on my list.

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