Yes, Lincoln is my favourite politician. A truly great man, a far more attractive figure to me than the founding fathers, especially the hypocritical Virginians. When I'm in DC I always try to f… (View Post)

You are defending Haley by saying that she said the war was about secession, when she didn't! You then pulled out this Lincoln Quote from 1862 to argue that the war wasn't about slavery. Th… (View Post)

The point is that the Southern states seceded because they feared that Lincoln's election threatened the status of slavery in the existing slave states, rather than merely threatening the extens… (View Post)

No that argument is nonsense, but that's not even the argument she makes. In fact she doesn't make an argument at all, she just vomits up a load of half-digested right wing talking points i… (View Post)

Not really, she doesn't mention secession either, just starts wittering on about capitalism and freedom of religion. What a lot of vacuous nonsense. Kind of odd that a former Governor of South C… (View Post)