[justshutupandtakeit]

Naw, there will never be a shortage of enemies to attack around here even if some are obsessed with those from 150 years ago. These folks haven't even started looking under their beds yet.

Don't get me started on Thomas Jefferson.

[Malcolm]

As a Southerner, let me say that I think AL was one of the best presidents of the 19th century, if not THE best. I'm proud to be a Southerner, but I'm not into calling good evil, or evil good. Lincoln was not perfect, but were the charlatan leaders of the Civil War-era South any better? They convinced most Southern whites to fight a war that could not possibly be won against the much more populous and vastly more industrial north, mostly if not entirely for the benefit of the plantation-ownership class, plus deceived them into thinking that somehow this was a "State's rights" issue, not one over slavery. The correct answer is no.....