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CV- I have zero respect for you.
go shoot a dog
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:01 pm
By: Big Bob
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President Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed a portrait of General Robert E. Lee in the Oval Office at the White House his entire presidency. In his own words, here is why Eisenhower so respected General Lee:
"General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history. From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained. Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall."
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:09 pm
By: John Steed
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Your woke mind may see following true history as "weak" but to most thinking people it is honest. Instead of true history, Bobbie, you follow the talking points of the far left narrative. That is not being an individual at all. It is being a lemming.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:57 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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That's your take away?
You really are a weak individual.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:18 pm
By: Big Bob
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There Little Bobbie goes again with his Common Core math. Before, he claimed Jim Crow lasted 120 years, and now he is down at least to 100, but the correct factual answer is about 60 years. Jim Crow laws came in around the turn of the century across the south. North Carolina adopted its first one in the 1899 legislative session but most of them were in the 1901 session.
Those laws were motivated by the Democrats trying to regain control in some states or maintain control in others as white small farmers abandoned the Democrats in the mid 1890s over a feeling that the Democrats were the party of the wealthy special interests (hmmm, a lot like today) and abandoned it for the new Populist Party. The Populists then ran a fusion campaign with the Republicans. The Democrats responded with a white supremacy strategy to divid those white small farmers from the Republicans, and keyed in on the fact that most blacks of that era voted Republican. The Democrats did not wake up one morning and decide they hated blacks. Instead, it was a matter of political strategy to recapture the white small farmer vote from the Populists who were allied to the Republicans. I do not condone what the Democrats did. My own party, the Republicans voted against all those Jim Crow laws when the Democrats put them through the legislature and I would have joined them if I were living in those times. But I do recognize that rather than being inherently racist, the Democrats of that period decided that pushing racism and white supremacy was a winning political strategy for them to recapture the white farmer vote they had lost to the Populists. There cynical use of the race card in those times for political purposes is as evil as the way the Democrats do it now with DEI. The looting, arson, rape, and murder of white and black Southern civilians by Sherman, Sheridan, and Stoneman, not only violated the Geneva Convention of 1863 but also violated the Common Law of War as those officers and others had been taught at West Point. Sherman's idea of "total war" was not much different from the Serbs in Bosnia. What Sherman did was a war crime by today's standards and also by the standards of his own period. FIghting for southern indepdence was NOT a sin, but vicious attacks on our history IS totalitarian.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 1:49 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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I imagine they would suck it up and do better buy our fellow Americans. We all sin. The trick is ask forgiveness and sin no more. Easy to say, tough to do.
(BTW I'm sure blacks are lining up to defend your post.) Anywho, Union war criminals? Hmmm. I'll admit they did put a hurt on ya, but hey, it's not like it was unprovoked. I agree that war is best avoided because people do awful stuff, they wouldn't normally do. In that respect, I'm sorry for your loss. The real crime was reconstruction. By killing Abe, hardcore confederates derailed reconstruction and the nation fell into 100 years of Jim Crow before the country began to unite in the 1950s 60s.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 12:32 pm
By: Big Bob
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Imagine how a southern student would feel at West Point surrounded by monuments to Union war criminals like Sherman, Stoneman, and Sheridan?
The descendants of black Confederate veterans are likely as upset at the woke BS as those descended from white Confederate veterans. It is an insult to our ancestors that is perpetrated for political reasons.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:48 am
By: Rino Hunter
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Imagine how a Black student at West Point would feel surrounded by confederate monuments?
If you aren't sure, think a swastika on the national mall. Would we tell Jews to just get over it?
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:28 am
By: Big Bob
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With Biden's politics, I am surprised that they were not replaced with pictures of Benedict Arnold or perhaps Karl Marx.
Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 7:00 am
By: Bubba
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Many of the officers of The Confederate States of America attended West Point. And many of them had served in the U.S. military prior to 1861. So, it's beyond ludicrous that mentions of those officers would be taken down at the military institute where they were educated. Where oh where will this offensive foolishness end?
JMan
Commented: Monday, April 29th, 2024 @ 10:37 pm
By: JMan
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