Before today’s speech, Obama was asked by a student “if you could have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?” The president replied: “I think that it might be Gandhi, who is a real hero of mine.” I would have thought the president would want to dine with Lincoln, but Lincoln was such a violent man. Gandhi, on the other hand, well…
“Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.”
Gandhi is not such a big hero of mine.
