Ron Paul says Lincoln was wrong to fight the Civil War. Do you agree? AOL poll

[atilla]

This has got to be the stupidest comment I have ever read on the Internet:




Kirk Nakata12:07PMDec 26th 2007

"For me i believe that Ron Paul is trying to put himself above God.

Why do you ask, well all o his campian poster on lawns across the nation what the United States need is Ron Paul. When in truth of the matter what the United States need is God through His Son Jesus Christ.

We have gotten away fromthevery thing that started this great nation and that is the values that God place in the heats of the forefathers of our nation.

ha ha, he said heats, he's talking about christian sex.

 

[ggibson1]

I dont really see what this has to do with Lincoln. Read his 1st inaugural address. He talks there that civil war is not needed. So that means the country already had civil war talk going on before he became president. The north had been antaganizing the south long before Lincoln got elected... it had been building up for a while. The relious extremists in the north were trying to start a war for a while and the financial leaders in the north were using the slavery issue to further their economic attacks on the south. Though the religious people in the north were right in opposing slavery it would not have come to war if the south had not already seen several attacks on them in Congress in the years before.

Personally I dont think the south should have left the union but they had done so not as a first act but instead after fighting it out in the Congress for years. We have all seen our partisan politicians act ruthlessly and without concern for the rights of the other side... this same way of antaganizing each other was going on back in the 1800s also.

If the south was going to be convinced not to leave the union it would have had to be done in the years before Lincoln got elected... if I am not mistaken the confederacy had elected their president before Lincoln had even been elected...

 

[d'anconia]

Bump. We need to keep voting in this bad boy.