[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 51, Issue 28

[Steve Barbone]

"Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com> worte (polite snip)

>By way of analogy, Steve Barbone writes (in a posting directed at John
>Farrell):
 
>> Steve :Being the best in your field is not always a positive indicator. After
>> all, Adolph Hitler was the best at what he did.
 
> Bill: Hitler . . . the best?  Well, I suppose it depends on how you define
> "best." To be the best you have to be the most successful at achieving your
> goals.
 
> Hitler set out to build a perfect aryan society. He wound up defeated,
> committed suicide and left his homeland a totally devastated pile of rubble.

Ha Ha, I knew I'd get in trouble with quoting Bobby Hackett. What you say is
almost 100 percent correct Bill.

But, by your definition above; "To be the best you have to be the most
successful at achieving your goals." Wasn't he exactly that? Who did better?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone