[C19fan]

Comparison of Churchill and Hitler:

Soldier: Hitler corporal, Churchill a Major with Grenadier Guards; winner Churchill

Writer: Hitler Mein Kempf which if Hitler stayed obscure would of disappeared, Churchull won a Noble Prize for Literature; winner Churchill

Geo-political Analyst: Hitler's mistakes helped lead Nazi Germany to defeat, Churchill forgetting about Gallopi, :0, identified Hitler as the evil man he would be, lead Britain to victory in WW II, called the West to stop post-war Soviet Expansion; winner Churchill

Artist: Hitler failed art student who dabbled in water colors, Churchill accomplished artist; winner Churchill

Summary: Churchill is you papi Adolf.

[allendale]

Safe to say Obama wasn’t bidding.

[Sans-Culotte]

Churchill had a remarkable career. Had he been killed in WWI, he would still be in the history books because of his service in the last of the Victorian wars and his accounts of them. He was quite a decent painter and might have even been famous as an artist alone. Had he concentrated on merely being a historian, he would still be known for the beauty of his prose. On top of all that, he saved Britain from the "Narzis".

He really was (IMHO) the "greatest man of the 20th century". Small wonder a narcissistic mediocrity like Obama would be offended by Winnie's likeness in the White House. The moment when Obama first saw the bust it was probably like a vampire being confronted with a cross or a beam of pure sunlight.

[Gay State Conservative]

I just might be willing to pay that sum for actual recordings of Cabinet War Room meetings but I'd never pay 1/1000th of that sum for *any* work of “art”.

[dfwgator]

"But nobody ever said a bad word about Winston Churchill, did they? No! 'Win with Winnie!' Churchill! With his cigars. With his brandy. And his rotten painting, rotten! Hitler - there was a painter! He count paint an entire apartment in one afternoon! Two Coats!"

[Albion Wilde]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ll never forget that scene in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS when Gene Kelly, struggling artist, walks by and stops to look back, to see what famous person is paining on the sidewalk!

[Bobalu]

[Ditter]

It. Is a beautiful painting I love it.

[zeugma]

I liked what he had to say about King Arthur in his "History of English Speaking Peoples". After going into the background of the era and some arguments for/against him being an actual historical figure, he writes:

"In this account we prefer to believe that the story with which Geoffrey delighted the fiction-loving Europe of the twelfth century is not all fancy. If we could see exactly what happened we should find ourselves in the presense of a theme as well founded, as inspired, an as inalienable from the inheritance of mankind as the Odyssey or the Old Testament. It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides. And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre for freedom, law and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds , even though they themselves exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round. Let us then declare that Kind Arthur and his noble knights, guarding the Sacred Flame of Christianity and the theme of a world order, sustained by valour, physical strength, and good horses and armour, slaughtered innumerable hosts of foul barbarians and set decent folk an example for all time.