Senator Duckworth,
Thank you for your service.
Now, you can go fuck yourself.
General George Washington was perhaps one of the greatest human beings who ever lived.
He risked his great personal fortune to lead the Continental Army, knowing that if he lost he would be drawn and quartered as a traitor.
He was begged to be king but refused that temptation to serve as President for two terms, then promptly retired back to civilian life at Mt. Vernon.
Thar is a man worthy of respect, a paragon of character.
To discuss tearing down statues and monuments to George Washington because at best you want to appease the mob or at worst you agree that Washington was little more that a slave holder whose memory should be desecrated is beyond the pale.
If you really want to have a discussion about getting rid of images of George Washington, you can start by tossing your Purple Heart in the trash, since it bears the obverse profile of the great man himself.
I saw some other bits of what she said on the news yesterday. She and other D parasites were pounding on Trump for “defending dead Confederate generals” when in fact he did no such thing and spoke specifically about American patriots.
But honesty is not a D politician virtue.
RE: “dead Confederate generals” –
Seen on Facebook (and quoted by bloggers): Imagine living in a country that had been torn apart by a terrible war — one of the most brutal wars the modern world had ever seen up to that point — but had reunited and knit itself together so strongly that each side honored the other’s heroes and respected the other’s dead. I was born in a country like that. I’m sad my kids won’t get to experience it. – Peter Barrett [bold emphasis mine]
Even if Trump had “defend[ed] dead Confederate generals”, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The war, like most wars, had multiple causes — slavery is just the most talked-about in history books — and one big one supported by men at all levels of society was the right of the states to voluntarily exit a union they had voluntarily entered. Generals and privates alike believed in this right, and felt it their patriotic duty to fight for it when the North violated it by denying their states’ request to separate and maintain diplomatic ties.
Confederate generals may have been on the wrong side of history when it comes to slavery, but that wasn’t the only thing they fought for, and I believe they weren’t wrong to demand the right to leave a union that no longer respected their states or their culture. (We saw echoes of that in “Brexit”.)
And on that note, when it comes to removing monuments and statues connected with the Confederacy, I’ll say what I’ve been saying for a while: Call me when they try to dig up Arlington National Cemetery; the land once belonged to General Robert E. Lee’s family, and I would love to see the looks on the “protesters'” faces when they see how sacred the U.S. military considers its honored dead.
“…looks on protestors’ faces…”
However briefly.
How’s the killdozer coming along, J.Kb?
OK, my reply was supposed to be – slow clap- but I guess bracketing it with the < and it's counterpart rendered it invisible. So, just like in a move….. slow clap
She is an embarrassment to Illinois, if that’s possible. Uses her disability to get elected