tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post3198174891542498031..comments2023-12-31T03:18:37.403-06:00Comments on "E pur si muove!": Teddy's AtonementLester Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-13268366511729775312009-09-01T10:38:03.248-05:002009-09-01T10:38:03.248-05:00In the linked article, Mark Steyn contrasts Teddy ...In the linked article, Mark Steyn contrasts Teddy with John Profumo:<br /><br />"Six years before Chappaquiddick, in the wake of Britain's comparatively very minor "Profumo scandal," the eponymous John Profumo, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for War, resigned from the House of Commons and the Queen's Privy Council and disappeared amid the tenements of the East End to do good works washing dishes and helping with children's playgroups, in anonymity, for the last 40 years of his life. With the exception of one newspaper article to mark the centenary of his charitable mission, he never uttered another word in public again."<br /><br />Traditionally, <i>that</i> is what was meant by the word, "atonement."Lester Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14746157071827337723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22657443.post-53050122235636989072009-09-01T09:21:32.104-05:002009-09-01T09:21:32.104-05:00Well said! If he'd gone into the Peace Corps o...Well said! If he'd gone into the Peace Corps or Teach America, maybe I'd give him a nickel's worth of credit.Annnoreply@blogger.com