Posted on 11/13/2007 1:06:08 PM PST by SmithL
Charleston, S.C. (AP) -- Fred Thompson has gotten a lot of mileage out of his movie and TV fame as he runs for the Republican presidential nomination. And on Tuesday, speaking at The Citadel military college, he made sure to mention one of his recent roles: president of the United States, in the movie "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."
But that wasn't all good for someone campaigning in the South.
"Some people say I've got a little making up to do," he said. "The last role I played when I was in the movies — I played Ulysses S. Grant." That's the Northern Civil War general who went on to become president. But it could have been worse.
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Some here obviously hope that it *does* hurt Thompson in the South. How lame is that?
I can’t imagine it would hurt him here......he is quite popular down here.
and acting out Grant doesn’t matter much down here.....most Southerners under 40 don’t pay much attention to any history
What a bunch of bunk. It was an acting job. Only a total idiot would believe Fred Thompson is the person he played, no matter what part it was, in any film or TV shows.
Duh. It amazes me how it's lost on so many Freepers that it was just a joke.
Dude, it's a joke.
Must be a slow news day.
No, it was the fact that Pemberton chose to hole his army up in a city with a civilian population that caused it. Had Pemberton not done that there would have been no seige.
I have a much higher opinion of Duncan Hunter when I ignore his supporters! lol
Wiki said that Groucho would accept the answer of six. It also said he would accept the answer of “Grant” for the other question because they were actually consolation questions to make sure that the guest got to go home with something.
When I think of Groucho, I think of Mark Levin for some reason. Not sure why.
And the Brits conducted the so-called carpet bombing because, contrary to popular legend, the Norton Bombsight couldn’t put a bomb in a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet. At least it couldn’t at night, and they conducted their raids at night to protect the crews.
I get sick and tired of people attacking the allies tactics at this late date when we didn’t ask for that damn war, we didn’t start it, we just finished it.
Take the atomic bombings. Those bombs saved four million Japanese lives. People always point to the million of ours it saved from being lost in an invasion. I would submit we would have had to kill 4X the number of japs to get the job done so it was for their benefit too.
War is like in infected tooth. There’s no easier softer way, you just have to get in there and yank it.
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what sherman ordered was a WAR CRIME, a CRIME AGAINST PEACE & a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
" sherman the destroyer" should have been hanged.
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when the band arrived in DC,they were waving the flags. they were ordered NOT to march with the CSA flags, however.
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damn NS.....Grant had no free will eh?
Pemberton (Yankee) made him bomb civilians....I get it.
Pemberton sucked though....you’re right about that.....but to be fair, it was reasonable to assume that he (Pemberton) could deal with gunboat traffic, defend to the east and not have to worry about the South and North land approaches which are horrible...impossible to the north.. to march an army through. He underestimated Grant’s ability to march down the Louisiana side and then cross over and take Jackson and Champion’s Hill etc thus making any hook up with Johnston impractical.
Which means it was Johnston’s fault as much since he did not make the effort necessary to match Grant and WT.
And yes...Grant did allow civilians to leave......those that wanted to but the ones who stayed were naive enough to think he would only target CSA encampments on the perimeter.
what he SHOULD have been hanged for was "suffered troops under his command" to commit mass rapes, tortures, assaults, robberies, arson & MURDERS of countless civilians. in other words, sherman failed to END the commission of WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, while the commanding general of those troops.
fwiw, that's what "general yamashita" was hanged for. sherman deserved a short rope & a long fall, TOO.
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Oh go away. Nobody is interested in the crap you post since none of it has any basis in fact anyway.
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