The President and the Confederacy

[grumbler]

The rest of the thread, most particularly the claims the South basked in ignorance compared to the South... are things I wont begin to argue.

Agree that it is better to show than to tell. 

[PDH]

The rest of the thread, most particularly the claims the South basked in ignorance compared to the South... are things I wont begin to argue.

Agree that it is better to show than to tell. 

That is the beginning of a severe downward spiral...

[alfred russel]

We may now have to come to grips with the possibility our president is a slavery sympathizer who is racist against black people.

[Razgovory]

The rest of the thread, most particularly the claims the South basked in ignorance compared to the South... are things I wont begin to argue.

Agree that it is better to show than to tell. 

That is the beginning of a severe downward spiral...

Stupid is as Stupid does.

[Fireblade]

We may now have to come to grips with the possibility our president is a slavery sympathizer who is racist against black people.

YES WE CAN.

[Martinus]

I heard about this on the news on Memorial Day. I was mainly surprised that Pres Obama was the first President to put a wreath on the Black soldier monument, or at least that's what I recall reported. As for the Confederate monument, I'm not sure, a bit ambivalent about it perhaps. The article does point out some things on both sides of the issue, how slavery was a part of the nation, as heinous as it was. But it did divide the nation as a huge open sore, until the ACW ended it.

Don't be so hard on yourself. If the Japanese government can commemorate their war criminals, so can you guys.

[Martinus]

The rest of the thread, most particularly the claims the South basked in ignorance compared to the South... are things I wont begin to argue.

Agree that it is better to show than to tell. 

That is the beginning of a severe downward spiral...

TBR sanctity! 

[Martinus]

What can one say, other than "mew?"

Woofness?

[PDH]

This thread needs a good old Civil War marching tune:

Mew! To the boys in butternut,
Those smashing southern gents.
Each is worth ten Yankees
Even if the double up in tents!

Mew! To the boys of Lee,
Of Bragg and Van Dorn too.
Mew and woofness always
So southern dreams come true!

...I forget the rest...

[Lettow77]

Yes, its true. I made a typo in the wee hours- you caught me.

[PDH]

What is the reason for the rest of the time?

[Ed Anger]

What is the reason for the rest of the time?

Yankee conspiracy. They took control of the Newton Station telegraph office.

[lustindarkness]

But, What If?...
The south had won, would the president lay a wreath in the Union part of Arlington?

[Ed Anger]

But, What If?...
The south had won, would the president lay a wreath in the Union part of Arlington?

/nitpick:

If the south had won, Arlington would have reverted back to the Lee family.

Squee

[Neil]

But, What If?...
The south had won, would the president lay a wreath in the Union part of Arlington?

If the South had won, they would have fought a war later on, as the economically poor south would inevitably turn to military adventurism in order to maintain order at home.