[jeffersondem]

“No, it was a simple question. One you just can’t bring yourself to answer.”

I'll answer. I just need clarification. Are you asking me if slavery was wrong before the northern states tired of it, or afterwards?”

[EternalVigilance]

That’s a stupid, evasive question.

[jeffersondem]

“No, it was a simple question. One you just can’t bring yourself to answer.”

Your response reminds me of a phrase Charles Krauthammer used awhile back to describe a compound, but unintended, self-repudiation uttered by Mrs. Clinton: “beyond irony.”