Posted on 08/09/2002 3:38:13 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
Coach Fulmer will have Martians in here next, as Simms was heavily recruited by Penn State, Texas and others.
Throwing 4 INT's against OU has nothing to do with who recruited him, of course.
We've got this skinny kid for QB from Northridge CA, now. As luck would have it, he has better numbers than Peyton Manning did at this point in his career. Plus -- he BEAT FLORIDA AT FLORIDA. Of course the 5' 8" Travis Stephens of Clarksville, Tennesee WOULD NOT be denied 226 yards last year at the Swamp.
I wonder what it says that Casey Clausen came to Tennessee and his younger brother went to LSU.
The greatest native Tennessee player -from- Tennessee lately is Al Wilson of Jackson, now of the Denver Broncos.
I was at the SECCG in '97 when Auburn, on the strength of SIX UT turnovers was ahead of us. Only later did I read that Al Wilson was throwing chairs at half time and challenging the big players like Peerless Price and PEYTON MANNING to get off their butts and play some offense.
Let the record also show that the winningest team in the WHOLE country in college football since 1926 is my Tennessee Volunteers!
We aim to win a bunch more.
FIGHT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT!
FOR THE ORANGE AND WHITE!!!
Walt
My main point is LONG LIVE THE UNITED STATES AND SUCCESS TO THE MARINES!!!!!
Sorry you see things differently.
Walt
Like George Washington, I have an immovable attachment to the national union.
Walt
My friend. You will not be able to show any parallels between Lincoln and Clinton.
In 1860, presidential candidates did not actively campaign. Too vulgar, don't you know.
Lincoln, although he was in the fight of his life, for the highest office he ever aspired to -- having lost MORE elections that he won -- told his managers, "make NO promises that will bind me." -- this was an honest man.
Having been elected in 1860, it was suggested to him that he might win re-election by renouncing the Emancipation Proclamation. He flatly refused.
He said he would be "damned in time and through eternity" if he betrayed the "black warriors" (are you listening, Lerrone Bennett?) who had fought at Fort Lusustee (sp) and other places.
Ths was not exactly the way that bill Clinton did things.
Walt
Lee was willing to see an end to democratic goverment; Washington was not.
A comparison of the record will NOT reflect well on traitor Lee.
Consider this very carefully:
Washington, towards the end of his life, said that he never wished to trade for another slave.
Lee, with all the softening that generations could and should have brought, wrote in 1865 (when events were passing him at a comet's speed) that the best relationship between blacks and whites was that of slave and master.
There is NO NONE NADA comparisons between Lee and Washington, and one of history's great questions is why Lee would retreat from the positions that Washington held.
Walt
You certainly have a right to your opinion that Lincoln was a a great and good-hearted man; but opinion is all it is, it is not "truth" however much you may be convinced that it is. I have given some thought to the question of Lincoln. In reality I don't believe he was consciously evil, but I do believe his actions caused much more harm than good. In the absence of new revelations I don't find "retinking" necessary and I will continue to hold to my present opinion.
Where is that shown in the -record- ?
Oh. Davis had no Supreme Court to contend with.
Walt
You'll show nothing else by the record.
When president Lincoln found out that Alexander Stephens' newphew was a POW, he had him released at once.
Show something like that on the CSA side.
Walt
One anecdote is supposed to change my mind?
Hitler is reported to have protected Jewish entertainers whose talents he appreciated. Individual actions out of context are not of much value in judging a man's character.
"Show something like that on the CSA side."
Whether one can or not is irrelevent to the question of Lincoln's character; you are trying the same fallacious argument that Non-Sequitur is so fond of.
Reported by whom?
And as you know, President Lincoln told General Grant to "Let 'em up easy", in regard to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Lincoln was always ready to forgive on the basis of Christianity.
I'm not sure that the defenders of Hitler can say the same thing.
Walt
I know that the defenders of the so-called CSA very seldom cite the record.
Walt
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