[Gay State Conservative]

Those examples are utterly irrelevant to the conversation of how the United States conducts her affairs, now or then.

Can you *really* imagine *any* president,even one as utterly amoral as Osama Obama,sending troops into a state (or group of states) that have declared independence?

[rockrr]

You mean like George Washington did?

[donmeaker]

Absolutely, any president would put down an insurrection. Washington did. Lincoln did. Any president would, should and must.