Monthly topic

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Time to announce the new monthly topic! Its that thing we sometimes resort to when we wonder what else to talk about! :D[Poll #1675790]
(Feel free to suggest more).

 

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Actually James Buchanan was more likely to have been our first gay President than Lincoln was. Not sure what if anything that says about Buchanan......and no, the despicable people in the Civil War were William Quantrill, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Seddon, and Jeff Davis.

[policraticus.livejournal.com]

I didn't say Lincoln was the first. Surely, Lincoln's political opportunism, his appallingly racist views and disgusting paternalism, not to mention the collection of war criminals he used to prosecute the war, should rank him with at least Lee among the despised.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

War criminals? Remind me when the Union authorized execution of enemy officers for political crimes and when the Union engaged in any shenanigans like what happened in Kingston and along the Nueces? If the Union had wanted to play that rough the entire Confederate leadership, not merely Wirz would be swinging among the Gallows.

And actually Lee was a great general.....for the Union.