Posted on 02/12/2009 8:59:00 AM PST by Federalist Patriot
Good comeback. Real insulting.
As for me, George Washington is my hero and the greatest of all.
In fact, the revolutionary/federal era is my preferred department. People who suffered much worse and against much greater odds, truly “brother vs. brother”, than Confederates deserve attention, and I like to give it to them. That is my perspective. Including the very fact that they themselves were doing the same thing as Confeds and recognized it as a natural right to do so. Even Jefferson mentions this a gazillion times. Secession is not evil and is not “against the law”.
Thanks, it was meant to be. As was yours, whiner.
How insulting? Point it out.
Words have meaning. Yours are weak and pathetic.
Never been into “lip service”, “liberal” or otherwise.
I did not insult you. Period. YOU DID insult me, and continue to do so.
If you don’t like my views about Lincoln and the Constitution, perhaps you should take it up with Walter Williams, for one.
I’m taking it up with you, bucko.
Besides being thin skinned, you’re a liar to boot.
I have no clue what you’re talking about. Insulting, thin-skinned (did I go off half-cocked like you?), liar (about what?)?
You can’t even answer my simple question.
Pretty apparent who’s the belligerent dodger. And apparent I didn’t do much because you can’t answer the question.
Funny how you get your bristles up so easily when we probably share much more than we disagree.
As long as you run around this forum denouncing Lincoln, refighting the Civil War and infer that conservatives like Rush and myself are no better than liberals paying lip service to the Constitution, you won't find many folks agreeing with you.
Hope that clears up your obvious confusion.
You still haven’t told me what “barbs” I shot at you. Lie about what? You are libeling me, incidentally. You seem way oversensitive, whatever it is.
I didn’t infer that “conservatives” are no better than liberals. I said LIBERALS like Lincoln because he did something for their favorite group, and he opened up alot of cans of worms for big government. And liberals, like Lincoln in many cases, pay lip service to the Constitution.
I just don’t think many people, including many conservatives, really understand the Founders and the founding era and how that went into the Constitution. Nor how it conflates with the “Civil War” situation. I can’t help thinking many conservatives stick with Lincoln because he was “the 1st Republican” and they like what he did. But many of us DON’T, to either part.
It’s not a huge deal to me as it is to you. I don’t “re-fight” the Civil War because too many people already do that and I don’t think it’s fair to the other soldiers in other wars (besides WWII). I’m still much more concerned with the lack of knowledge (much less interpretation) of the whole founding era - the Revolution, etc. I’m very big on the Revolution and the miracle it was - and how it was also a civil war, much more than the “US Civil War”.
Too bad you can’t just have a civil discussion, apparently, without whipping out a bad attitude; all I did was state my view in straight terms, even if not in the best English. I’m more than willing to discuss; I just have an opinion that happens to offend many people.
>>>>>You are libeling me, incidentally.
LOL Thanks for a good laugh.
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