Historical Greats
All I have to say is, any historian who thinks that Reagan is the greatest American in history, is not a historian.
How can Reagan be greater than the "fathers of the U.S." who fought the British and then set up the country in the first place?
How can Reagan be greater than the president who got the country through the civil war?
How can Reagan be greater than the president who gave the order to drop the first atomic bomb?
Posted by at June 27, 2005 06:47 PM
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How can he be worse than the authors of the three-fifths compromise who effectively barred blacks from citizenship, democratic rights or legal status until 1896?
How can he be worse than the national leader who espoused white supremacy and was indifferent as to the slavery question - as long as the union remained in tact?
How can he be worse than the President who built a national highway system but failed to connect blacks to industries without the fetters of labor racism and unequal pay...who failed to follow through on the promise of the movement introduced by the likes of A. Philip Randolph?
I guess it's all a matter of perspective. Good, bad or indifferent - brothers of a foul feather in foul weather...I see similarities and a consistency of leadership that makes one hard to separate from another. Tactics may change, the principle remains. Ronny the Great? George the Great? Pick your poison.
Or...
How can he be worse than the authors of the three-fifths compromise who effectively barred blacks from citizenship, democratic rights or legal status until 1896?
How can he be worse than the national leader who espoused white supremacy and was indifferent as to the slavery question - as long as the union remained in tact?
How can he be worse than the President who built a national highway system but failed to connect blacks to industries without the fetters of labor racism and unequal pay...who failed to follow through on the promise of the movement introduced by the likes of A. Philip Randolph?
I guess it's all a matter of perspective. Good, bad or indifferent - brothers of a foul feather in foul weather...I see similarities and a consistency of leadership that makes one hard to separate from another. Tactics may change, the principle remains. Ronny the Great? George the Great? Pick your poison.
Posted by: Temple3 at June 27, 2005 07:19 PM