William Bennett: Bookmaker of Virtues

[Joyce in the mts.]

How the mighty self-righteous have fallen! (Can hardly believe that no one has posted about this already!!!)

What will we tell the children?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2082526/

I hear he says he is now stopping gambling...let's see, is it really that easy for a habitual gambler to quit? Oh yeah, since he has been exposed...I guess that might motivate...you think?

Yikes!...Joyce in the mts.

[Tracy]

yeah, I heard this and I've gotta say Iwasn't surprised. Grossed out, yeah...but not entirely surprised.

falls into place with Newt G. and all the nonesense he tried to put on everyone about family values..etc, the same man who dumped his wife when she got cancer....


I don't get it, everyone wants to put these guys up on pedestals and listen to Rush go on and on about them as wonderful, GOOD AMERICANS..... and then, crash...and then everyone has an 'oh-well'' moving on... and goes right up there putting someone else up high....

feels like all the religious leaders when they get so darn vocal and righteous and then we find out about the hookers or what not....

creepy hypocrisy....

[ladylee]

Perhaps he'll soon write The Book of Vices.

[Delilah]

Try to quit?

I wonder if that is any harder to accomplish than Bush's "dry drunk" status; you know, quitting without the benefit of therapy or support group help. I wonder, with what he will compensate?

[frogertgrl]

Whenever I've listened to W. Bennett, I cannot understand anything he is saying. I can comprehend Dr. Laura, Rush, Savage, Hannity, Coulter and the rest of the forever whining toddler bunch, but not W. Bennett.

I always thought it was because he might be intoxicated.

I do not have this experience with Bob Bennett so it must not be a family thing.

Wonder where he was gambling?

[Quirky]

Couldn't happen to a nicer, more well-deserving

[El Casey S]

What is really interesting to me is the attitude of the author. Beacause of these flaws of WB, there is a God! This is, I think a perfectly normal response - humans want to see someone, who makes a living out of telling others how to be good, to fall. Which only reinforces to ME my missionary principal of mercy. People can see God and come closer to God through mercy than through moral teachings. People come closer to listening when they feel they are amongst equal sinners who are all struggling to live in grace with each other. I really think the motivation behind WB was honestly never to convert or help - but to show off, "See how good I am! - You should be too" This man was bound to fall.

[SoHappy]

Heh-heh-heh.