It's obvious you didn't get the point because you are still myopically fixated on "150 years" rather than acknowledging that I picked Lincoln because even the revered Lincoln tended, at times, to be rude and uncouth.
Originally Posted by I B Hankering
What's obvious is that you don't get the point that maybe you should find an example of something happening during a time that isn't so drastically different than the one we currently live in.
If Trump came out and said "Black people shouldn't be allowed to vote. I don't care if they all die" your equivalent argument would be. "Well, Garfield once said, 'I have a strong feeling of repugnance when I think of the Negro being made our political equal. And I would be glad if they could be colonized, sent to heaven, or got rid of in any decent way.'"
It was a different time. Trying to justify the comment because someone said something similar 150 years ago just isn't a strong point. Sorry.
fact that you troubled yourself to remark in this thread as you have has established otherwise.
Wait, you think that posting in a thread about something is evidence of "outrage?" That isn't patently ridiculous at face value to you? I was simply pointing out the humor of it. You want me to be outraged about because you are. But it doesn't work that way. I'm laughing about this.
But you are going to vote for the molester's enabler.
As I've said elsewhere, probably not. But I tend to separate the private lives of a person from their political lives. As the statement goes "good and great are seldom the same man." I'm under no delusion that these candidates likely have skeletons in their closets,
especially Clinton and
especially Trump.