Posted on 01/17/2014 5:55:06 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
OK my friends: In case you forgot: It was the Prez who returned the bust of Churchill to London. We ALL know it was petty. Am I right? Just remember that 2 can play this game. It all depends on which of us is in the W.H.
I don't think we should bring it back. Some GOP debater tried to make points on that issue-didn't work. Just put a bust of Americas greatest General in the same spot. Just watch the Great Ones friends react. Tit for tat. Thoughts?
They were both the right men at the right time. I can’t pick a favorite between the two...and I admire them both.
COME ON! It was meant to be provocative! Aimed at Obama. Where do you stand?
Lee lost. I don’t think you can be the greatest if you lost the war you were supreme commander for.
Maybe Ike, who belongs there because he c was also an American President
That's the first time I ever heard anybody suggest putting a bust of Winfield Scott in the White House.
I'd support more George Washington in the WH. I would heavily redecorate with the Founding Fathers. I'd go full-on limited government, let's have a budget the size of the one in 1796 (or whatever).
Hard to criticize such an approach, and it is the right path to travel.
That’s even worse! We’re talking Generals. He was offered command of the Union Army. Declined. Took on a bunch of rag tags and did exceptional. We need more input.
Nathan Bedford Forrest ?
Taking out Churchill didn’t cost him anything. Reagan was not afraid to take it to them.
McArthur lost the Philippines in 1942. Ordered to flee, then came back.
Lee lost at Gettysburg, he did more with less prior to that. He really screwed up there. Had he taken the heights when he got there, history would read quite differently. Either way, he was a master warrior. Churchill was an anachronism that save Britain...and they booted him out of power at their first opportunity in gratitude.
Look, Lee lost his war. He was a slaveholder. You think making him a team mascot in the 21st century -- directly after our first black president leaves office -- you think that would a super clever political strategy??
You are not a serious person.
So a bust of Patton?
And how is any of this tit for tat? Who is returning something from Britain?
Churchill descended from nobility. Bobby Lee was an upper class twit.
It belabors the obvious to point our any of Obama’s shortcomings.
Lee was a Confederate hero, not a United States hero, hence his image does not belong in the oval office. He was a brilliant mind and an honorable man but the cause he fought for was morally ambiguous at best. Also, would a confederate general really be pleased to have his image displayed in the high office of the government he set out to dissolve?
There is no shortage of patriotic US generals we can put on display at the Oval Office, Lee is poor choice. I second the call for Patton.
Ronald Reagan: 1) “Unemployment insurance is a paid vacation.” 2) “ Viet Nam was a noble cause”. There are others.
Statue of Patton would not put the left in it’s place. Remember: I’m talking’ Generals. Let the historians decide who was the greatest-u would b disappointed.
U folks r timid-Mccain types.
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