@firefly,
Quote:and many feel that Vance has acted admirably in both arresting DSK, on the basis of what appeared to be a "highly credible" report of a crime, and in disclosing problems with the complainant's credibility as soon as they became apparent.
Yes--and many feel that a man in a responsibe position hardly seeming to suspect this female Fulani speaker's credibilty, if at all, can hardly be said to be educated.
A robust defence of Mr Vance would say that he took a punt on the credibility of the lady on the basis of self promotion knowing that he could talk his way out of the bet if turned out a losing one with the help of his allies whose pride is now at stake as a result of declaring themselves too prematurely in supporting him. The premature ejaculation is a known signification of immaturity.
It is not in the least to his credit that he disclosed problems when they became apparent. What else was there to do if digging a deeper hole was to be avoided?
That he believed her assertions so innocently and abjectly is hardly a recommendation for a prosecutor as it suggests that what he knows about women could be written on a postage stamp with a whitewash brush. And being surrounded by females watching his every move would make it necessary for him to take such a misogynistic position.
The idea that you ladies are all tweeting little budgies in a gilded cage is too ridiculous to entertain for a moment and constitutes fundamentalist misogyny of the most extreme type. It admits of the necessity to have you tweeting on the gilded perch rather than being on the loose. And free.
It's the reformed hippie talking ff. Hiding a youthful wilding behind a plethora of puritanical indignation. An old auntie tried it on me but I knew some of her contemporaries in the pub. Auntie Lillian I called her but she was Diamond Lil to them. She came to our house often to pick up mail with a range of different handwriting on the envelopes and postmarked all over the place. She was very contemptuous of men when she started being respectable.
The only novel aspect of the Hippie movement was television. Oh--and the refined control of it. They're into Barry Manilow now but not in the way I am. It's like watching a bloke milk a cow when he can't get at the udders.
