Weird World Leader Question my sister sent me.

[Ripley]

I guess it's an Internet "joke" and she is pretty apolitical.

Question:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three leading candidates.

Candidate A -
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two Mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10
martinis a day.


Candidate B -
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.


Candidate C -
He is a decorated war hero. He's a vegetarian, doesn't smoke, drinks
an occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.



Which of these candidates would be your Choice?

Decide first, no peeking, then scroll down for the answer.

























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Candidate A: is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B: is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C: is Adolph Hitler.


I believe FDR and Churchill drank and smoked a lot, but that seems an awful lot on a daily basis. Any history buffs know if the number of drinks is supposed to be accurate?

[rooboy]

1. Adolph Hitler - What wife?????

He was married to Eva Braun for about a nanosecond before he died, but WHAT wife did he not cheat on? And I know he participated in WWI, but I didn't know he was a "war hero".

Furthermore, how much of the other "facts" about these people are true or just hearsay?

[stavka]

5. There are those who would say he murdered or had killed

his own 14 year old niece after assaulting her...in the strictly neo-con Biblical sense maybe that qualifies as a marriage of sorts.

Many would also argue his war hero image was fudged. Nobody seems to remember how he earned the iron cross. He did serve at the front though.

So Bush is less than Hitler in at least one aspect.

[Northwind]

2. It's all quite true.

Hitler was never married until his pre-suicide marriage to Eva, so therefore he never had a wife to cheat on. He received the Iron Cross in WW1. He was a vegetarian because he had uncontrollable flatulence and was on a strict diet to attempt to control it (his uncontrolled farting had a huge part in his death, as he took almost 200 anti-gas pills a day, which contained strictine). The stuff about Churchill and Roosevelt are true as well. Remember that back then a rich man having a mistress was a given, not a scandalous thing at all, unless it was flaunted publicly. Consulting with astrologers was also not unusual. Heavy (yes, THAT heavy) drinking by upper-class men was also normal (they could aford it). As was smoking. And what President hasn't "associated" with crooked politicians?

This has been going around the net for a few years, and it is all true.

[Ripley]

4. Yes, I know it was a "normal" social thing...

I just wonder how the hell either one of them functioned during the day if they drank that much each and every night. Immune to hangovers maybe?

I guess it's supposed to show us how petty it is to judge the "personal" aspects of our leaders. In our age of "Cult of Personality" and nosey, gossipy rumor-mongers instead of journalists these days...it's no wonder so many good people who would make great leaders don't go into public life.

[stavka]

6. ...er hum, I have a friend, who would say it is quite easy to so function

Most of my father's friends, and for most of his own successful life, 8-10 drinks a day didn't impact "effectiveness". It always had its own cost later in life.

[Must_B_Free]

3. Those were social norms during the times of Roosevelt and Churchill