[Servant of the Nine]

Santa Anna: Hollyweird's new hero. And of course they have to smear the General who whipped his @ss.

Calling Sam Houston a Big Drunk is hardly smearing him, it's simple truth. You don't have to be a silly assed choir boy to be a great general.

So9

[FreedomPoster]

>>Calling Sam Houston a Big Drunk is hardly smearing him, it's simple truth. You don't have to be a silly assed choir boy to be a great general.

Grant sure as heck wasn't a choirboy, for just one example.

"Grant is a drunkard," asserted powerful and influential politicians to the president at the White House time after time; "he is not himself half the time; he can't be relied upon, and it is a shame to have such a man in command of an army."

"So Grant gets drunk, does he?" queried Lincoln, addresing himself to one of the particularly active detractors of the soldier, who, at that period, was inflicting heavy damage upon the Confederates.

"Yes, he does, and I can prove it," was the reply.

"Well," returned Lincoln, with the faintest suspicion of a twinkle in his eye, "you needn't waste your time getting proof; you just find out, to oblige me, what brand of whiskey Grant drinks, because I want to send a barrel of it to each one of my generals."

That ended the crusade against Grant, so far as the question of drinking was concerned.

[jimbo123]

Quaid assumes Houston "was bipolar, a manic-depressive. He had a brother who committed suicide and a sister who died in a mental institution. So I think depression is something he battled with all his life. He was an alcoholic, and I think he used alcohol to medicate himself against emotional swings. You know how it is when you're like that: There's the meal, and then there's the check. There's really nothing in between."