Your generation is my generation. And I am ashamed of us... we are the ultimate ME generation. You are a classic example of what is wrong with our generation. You use some element of persuasion to impress your audience in order to manipulate your view.
You are a history professor. A historian passing judgment on the character of a President based on assumptive, prejudiced opinions. A holocaust and genocide expert. I have been to Dachau concentration camp, Bates. My father, a liberator of those camps, brought me there as a young child. The putrid stench of death still permeated the air when I stood before those ovens. As a historian of such atrocities, you of all people should be talking about the character of this President in relationship to his courage to ACT.
Good post, e.m. I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for you. May God bless you and your family, and comfort you always.