[Non-Sequitur]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Was this an excerpt? I missed the part about the 24 hour guard. Or perhaps this was made from whole cloth...

[WhiskeyPapa]

"I'm a Southern man," said Edgerton. "When somebody does something as ignorant as put Abe Lin- coln in the capital of the Confederacy, how can I not come to protest it? You don't put a criminal up and call it reconciliation, and Lincoln was a war criminal on top of it."

Pitiful.

All this guy needs is an organ grinder.

Walt

[xm177e2]

April Fools?

[Hacksaw]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

Slow day today?

[putupon]

City residents have clashed over erecting a statue of black tennis star Arthur Ashe on Monument Avenue,

Arthur Ashe's black family refused to attend the unveiling of the black tennis star's statue. I never heard any quotes from them on why, but it could have been for any of or a combination of the following four reasons:

1. It is is out of context with subject matter and time period of surrounding architecture.

2. There are at least two other places where the statue would have been more appropriate, Battery Park where he played as a youngster or (my favorite suggestion @ the time) in the the place of the Columbus Statue, which in the middle of the well traveled Boulevard across from the courts where Ashe wasn't allowed to play during the segregation days of his youth.

3. Its just a crappy statue; looks like hes holding a book out of reach of some kids and trying to beat them away w/ a tennis racket.

4. They recognized it for what it was, another transparent attempt to stir up racial crap by leftists to suit their own agenda, just like sticking Lincoln here yesterday was.

So it's been around eight years between contoversial statues. I wonder if some leftist front organization is already getting started on plans for the 2011 Start Racial $hit in Richmond Statue and who it will be of? A Saad El Amin, Sheriff Micele Mitchell, or Mayor Rudy McCollum on an empty Monument Ave intersection would probably suit their purposes well.

[ml/nj]

a life-size bronze statue of Lincoln and his son, Tad

Is that the same son that the Great Man secretly abandoned, allowing him (and his mother) to continue riding on a train the Great Man believed would be attacked with fatal consequences?

ML/NJ

[putupon]

"The same things that we are struggling for in Iraq today are not so different from the things he was struggling for 138 years ago," said Bill Laslett, a Richmond architect and self-described "big fan of Lincoln."

True, true. Just like Hussein, Lincoln locked up people suspected of having different political opinions without benefit of trial.

[A2J]

Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine

Traitor.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I'm not surprised that the guys who paid for the "Sic Semper Tyrannis" banner chose red as their color. Thus it is with the paleocon left.

[cyborg]

BREAKING NEWS... the new Lincoln Memorial statue was decimated by poop released from Stand Watie and the Sothron brigades' Pigeon Army. Fellow CSA member HK Edgerton was seen roping the statue and taking it away on a flatbed truck to the nearest cow manure pond.

[Blue Scourge]

"I'm a Southern man," said Edgerton. "When somebody does something as ignorant as put Abe Lin- coln in the capital of the Confederacy, how can I not come to protest it? You don't put a criminal up and call it reconciliation, and Lincoln was a war criminal on top of it."

It's idiots like this who won't let go that give the rest of us who live in the South a bad name. I have a extensive family tree, I had 12 relatives fight and die for the Confederacy. I respect them, and honor them for their courage and commitment to their native soil, but I admit that the system they were fighting for was wrong.

And Lincoln a war criminal....perhaps he should look at some of his rebel buddies from Andersonville. Sherman was a borderline war criminal, Lincoln was not.

[Centurion2000]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

That would be because the North did not get RAPED by Lincoln / Sherman.

[mtbopfuyn]

Just a coinky-dink: The Civil War began and ended at Wilmer McLean's. Indeed it did. Seems poor McLean had the misfortune to have the Battle if Manassas fought in his yard in 1861 which caused him to high tail it outta there and move to Appomattox. Yes, it was in his parlor that Lee and Grant met in 1865. Just another of those life is stranger than fictions.

[fightu4it]

I give it a week.

[Corin Stormhands]

I still find it somewhat amusing that statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee can sit in perfect safety up North, but the Lincoln statue will literally need a guard 24/7 to keep from being vandalized.

Guess you forgot about the mural or Robert E. Lee that was firebombed right here in Richmond.

[Rosencrantz]

[Ditto]

Earlier yesterday, the Sons of Confederate Veterans held a rally at Jefferson Davis' gravesite in Hollywood Cemetery to protest the arrival of the Lincoln statue.

For 130 years, the SCV laid a wreath at Lincoln's grave every year. Then they were taken over by these hate-filled revisionist neo-confederates.