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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We made the mistake of holding Yankees to higher standards.
That they were unable to punish us enough to suit you is something you can take up with them on the other side when you get there.....hopefully a long while from now.
Keep digging a$$holes, I've got more shovels if you need them.
Keep digging a$$holes, I've got more shovels if you need them.
No, you just whine more.
That they were unable to punish us enough to suit you is something you can take up with them on the other side when you get there.....hopefully a long while from now.
You miss my point entirely. I'm not saying that the South was punished enough or too much. I'm just not wasting any sympathy for problems that the South brought upon itself.
Just go away and stop wasting the adult's time with your nonsense.
I knew it was you......you never give up with your animus to all things Southern.
let me repeat myself.
I hereby again apologize to you if my kin killed, maimed, wounded, raped or owned yours at one time or another.
I am truly sorry.
My the good Lord left the hate from your heart brother.
sorta/s
Animus? Pointing out that you're whining again is animus? Refusing to feel sympathy for people who would not have suffered if their own leaders had not started a war is animus? My God, you Southerners do so love to wallow in your self-pity, don't you?
I hereby again apologize to you if my kin killed, maimed, wounded, raped or owned yours at one time or another.
My kin on my father's side came over around the turn of the century so you could not have killed, maimed, wounded, raped, or owned any of them. On my mother's side I'm aware of only one relative who was killed in the war, a Unionist in eastern Tennessee who was lynched by some of Isham Harris's men. So dive into that family tree and do the math. If any of your kin were in the area at the time and were murderous enough to do the deed then apology accepted.
My the good Lord left the hate from your heart brother.
What you mistake for hate is merely apathy.
I assure you that my acceptance is just as heartfelt as your apology is.
PITY, that you are willing to defend the WORST atrocities of the DAMNyankees who PREYED ON the racial/ethnic/religious minorities & the "poorest of the poor" throughout the south, without MERCY & in violation of not only The Law of War, but also of COMMON DECENCY.
sadly, the massacre of MY family was anything BUT unique.
you might also ask "Sirena" of this forum what happened at Point Lookout DEATH CAMP to her Great-grandfather (a common Private of the 4th SC Cav); it's NOT a "pretty bedtime story for children".
i'd guess that you excuse all the THOUSANDS of known ATROCITIES against CSA prisoners of war & innocent, unarmed, civilians as just "boys will be boys" and/or you (like so many DYs) think that southerners are somehow LESS HUMAN than other people.
free dixie,sw
...who apparently hasn't posted anything in almost four years.
as one DY said: "if he hadn't been a stupid (obscenity deleted) he would have (obscenity deleted) run to Canada." (fwiw,MANY of you DYs seem to have NO CLASS, as well as being arrogant,LOUD-mouthed, loutish, MEAN-spirited, vulgar, ignorant & mostly DUMB.)
fwiw, several other members of "the DAMNyankee coven" made "cutesy remarks" about the MURDER. (note to ALL: and you wonder why southerners DESPISE the DAMNyankee minority of northerners???)
free dixie,sw
But since you're not answering the post on the other thread: Jefferson Davis on Father Boyle: Liar or dupe?
the answer is: i don't know for sure. i'm inclined to believe the US Army MAJ, who was Chief of Custody & was within sight of CPT Wirz for the last 24 hours of his life (he actually slept "a few hours" in the cellblock).
free dixie,sw
But it has to be one of them, right? Jefferson Davis either lied about getting such a letter from Boyle and made up the whole thing that he reprints in his book, or he was duped by a fake letter. Lewis Schade, Wirz’s lawyer, who wrote a letter talking about a conversation with Father Boyle must have been lying, right?
No, in other words I choose not to waste time with a habitual liar. Witness your latest post.
I don't get it. You come off like such a clown -- with the silly capitalization and punctuation, the wild accusations, and the obvious lies.
And all the world loves a clown.
But then when other people join in the fun, you put us down.
What gives? Are you the only one allowed to play the joker?
You really do have that Gomer Pyle thing down -- you play the fool, but then all of a sudden you want to get serious.
Do you want to sing now, or what?
otoh, i have no reason to believe YOU.
it's no more complicated than you are NOT believed by most anyone here. (that's what happens when everyone decides that you're a SERIAL LIAR, who is a stranger to honor/decency/truth.)
free dixie,sw
the totality of your posts are ignorant, unknowing, stupidity & sound like the ravings of a demented, 7th grade dropout. as i said before: those who "focus in on" my admittedly eccentric capitalization/punctuation & miss the CONTENT are, in a word, brainless/witless. (this means you, "mentally challenged" person & laughingstock. perhaps, Judy _________ is really right about you.)
further, you posting of silly cartoons & pictures,which have nothing whatever to do with the subject of the thread,make you (and the Unionist "cause") appear also brainless.
but PLEASE keep "zeroing in on" the UNIMPORTANT stuff, as you DAMAGE the "unionists" & DYs with every one. (anything that converts neutrals to the TRUE CAUSE advances the longterm plan for dixie FREEDOM.)
laughing AT you, DUMMY.
free dixie,sw
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