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I like Washington, but I think his involvement in the Whiskey Rebellion was pretty deplorable.

I can't really think of a single person who did a fantastic job, it's more a relative scale of who sucked the least.

Maybe Romney will save my faith if he's elected.

My coworkers know how fond I am of Lincoln, so they turned my desk into a shrine when I was on vacation last year.

^^^That's classic

All,

There is definitely a good case for Washington. I think he was foreordained for the great task of creating this nation that provided the foundation for the restoration of the gospel. I know there are passionate Lincoln haters here (I've pointed out the historical fallacies in their assessment of him in previous threads years ago), but I also believe he was a special soul foreordained to bring this broken splintered country through its greatest crisis.

However in "modern times" 20-21th centuries, my vote goes for Silent Calvin Coolidge.

Regards,

George Clay

Muerte Rosa wrote:Why you have so many phones Steve? There can't really be THAT many people that want to talk to you. ;)

Well, I have my cell and a SIP phone on my PC, so there are 6 at my desk.

Most of them are direct lines to various superheros and talent agencies. My secretary handles the filtering of most the other calls.

Either that or I test telecom software and actually use them.

gclayjr wrote: I know there are passionate Lincoln haters here (I've pointed out the historical fallacies in their assessment of him in previous threads years ago), but I also believe he was a special soul foreordained to bring this broken splintered country through its greatest crisis.

Wasn't the real crisis:
-600- 800 thousand TOTAL casualties
-a destruction of 40% of the nations economy
-the emergence of TOTAL WAR on the Southern civilian population
-a disregard to the Constitution and civil liberties
-the death of federalism...

For What? "No you can't leave and start your own country!" ?

Shake hands and bid your brothers peace. This was nothing but power politics. The South didn't invade the North and try to subjugate it. The North DID invade the South and DID subjugate it. Why? Because the South wanted to leave.

gclayjr wrote:All,

There is definitely a good case for Washington. I think he was foreordained for the great task of creating this nation that provided the foundation for the restoration of the gospel. I know there are passionate Lincoln haters here (I've pointed out the historical fallacies in their assessment of him in previous threads years ago), but I also believe he was a special soul foreordained to bring this broken splintered country through its greatest crisis.

However in "modern times" 20-21th centuries, my vote goes for Silent Calvin Coolidge.

Regards,

George Clay

And we've likewise shown how those historical fallacies were true, upheld by multiple witnesses and more.