If we were in a bar, I'd buy you one. Just for making me laugh today.
Honestly, I believe Ebbers was essentially clueless. And from what I understand he is a genuinely nice guy. Frankly a lot of smarter people got caught up in the Nasdaq bubble. Ebbers was largely in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong box of tools.
Now those Enron clowns, Sullivan and Fastow, need to bend over and pay the man. Over, and over, and over ...