[HandyDandy]

Pardon me, but it was I that first jumped in with “a purposeful distraction from inquiry” when you first proposed the inquiry. Now you have put lipstick on that pig and re-presented it, here I am purposely distracting from it again. You are trying, like your buddy used to, to equate what the Founding Father’s did to what the Southern Slave States did. There is no comparison. The Founding Father’s were in the right and the Southern Confederacy was in the wrong. By the way, Slavery was enshrined in the Confederate States Constitutions so far beyond the simple acknowledgement of its existence by the Founding Father’s, that you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope.

I am also purposely distracting from your inquiry in the interest of my FRiend BroJoeK. I would not want to see him allow the likes of you the slightest toehold or fingerhold in your pathetic attempts to dig yourself out of your hole. Keep on pirouetting.

[jeffersondem]

“The Founding Father’s were in the right and the Southern Confederacy was in the wrong.”

Many founding fathers owned slaves. Why do you say our founding fathers were right in owning slaves?

Don’t you know owning slaves is wrong?

Each of the original states had slavery. It was legal. Why do you defend the original states writing slavery into the United States constitution?

Don’t you know owning slaves is wrong?

You just witnessed my playing, reluctantly, the Slavery Card. Did it seem to you as ignorant, insincere, and demagogic as when you play the Slavery Card?

[jeffersondem]

“Pardon me, but it was I that first jumped in with “a purposeful distraction from inquiry” when you first proposed the inquiry.”

Sorry, I didn’t mean to ignore you. I didn’t remember you being the first but - now that I think of it - you are right: you were first.

You remind me of an old boy back home: it always took him two or three tries to make a first impression.