Former People's Temple leader Jim Jones or former POTUS George W. Bush?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[kenny blankenship]

1. Put them together, and you still don't have enough for even one George Jones.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. THE POSSUM! A.K.A. "No Show Jones."

My favorite memory of Jones is that I took my dad to see him at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos.

I know "show biz schtick" is "show biz schtick," BUT...

...when he told the audience that he loved us, and that maybe he'd play "all night," I had to wonder what he really thought about us at the end of his 30-minute set.

:rofl:

:toast:

[Odin2005]

2. Jones was actually a decent left-wing guy before he went nuts and his church became a cult.

Or so I've heard.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. He wouldn't have had the initial "followers" if he wasn't...

I watched the Powers Boothe movie and can't remember a sharp dividing line between the "decent left-wing guy and the one who "went nuts"...it just kind of happened.

Somewhere in there was good, or the illusion of good. With Bush, it was more or less a puppet with Karl Rove's hand up his ass.

[panader0]

4. Bush is responsble for far more deaths........

[lpbk2713]

6. No Kool-Aid on this table.

[saras]

7. What Jim Jones did was relatively trivial in scale, and required at least partial complicity...

Bush was responsible, as commander-in-chief, for the death of thousands of times the number of Peoples Temple members. Jim Jones is not even in the ballpark. It's like comparing Timothy McVeigh to Hitler.