He would be considered Right-wing by todays standards.
Posted on 08/11/2004 7:08:05 AM PDT by The Wizard
Spoken like a perfect ignoramus.
The American South, more than any other region of the Western world, is the remaining citadel of Western culture and values.
Without the South, America would be spiritually, culturally and militarily a far poorer place than it is today.
sure i agree competely
PS hahahaha
The CSA was not a foregin country, but part of the USA. They were rebelds.
Yeah, and ain't it great. Since we will never know how the world would have been with a different outcome it's not possible to say it was a good thing.
He will always be one of the greatest US Presidents because he managed not to be the last US President
Good Presidents don't ignore the constitution and cause the death of at least 600,000 people for a dubious concept.
Nonsense
Of course then we'll have to listen to the anguished howls of tormented creatures in the moonlight for four more years.
Thank you for your generosity.
What we will never know is how history would have turned out if nothing was done, the USA and CSA were allowed to evolve in a more natural course. A little competiton never hurt anyone, just makes them better. Today's rats and Lincoln both share that 'gotta be one big group or else' mentality IMHO.
So why fight to keep them in the Union?
I feel an awful draft. What? We haven't annexed Canada yet? It's our manifest destiny, man!
I'd rather call him the savior of the original concept of freedom in America, but that will never happen. Too busy "nation building" elsewhere while this nation crumbles.
keep your powder dry
Slow day at DU, huh?
I can point to several useful accomplishments of the Union that would have been impossible or highly impracticable if the US had been divided.
Good Presidents don't ignore the constitution and cause the death of at least 600,000 people for a dubious concept.
Lincoln didn't ignore the Constitution. He was of the opinion that the Constitution did not mandate its own destruction.
It's an opinion whose merits can be debated, but to say that Lincoln simply ignored the Constitution is an exercise in self-deception.
Ascribing the death toll of the Civil War entirely to Lincoln is, of course, silly. One might as well say that it was Johnston's fault for not taking Washington immediately after First Manassas.
The indivisibility of the Union is not "dubious" or a mere "concept." If one reads The Federalist with attention, one will see that the legality of secession was not contemplated by the original advocates of the US Constitution.
And the physical fact of Union, far from being merely conceptual, had real implications for the safety and prosperity of the inhabitants of the US.
I wasn't aware that Canada had ever ratified the US Constitution. Please fill me in on the details.
"We're not worthty....we're not worthy"
Tip O'Neill was a slimy gasbag.
Ditto!
The Canadian provinces never were states of the USA. The states of the CSA were.
The states that seceded are the most bellicose, as they always have been. I don't know if that makes them the most patriotic. They just have different ideas of how American power should be used.
He would be considered Right-wing by todays standards.
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