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Originally Posted by VRM
Roscoe,
I've certainly asked before...but I don't recall ever getting an honest answer. I may be mistaken, but if I did get an answer I don't remember what it was.
Steve
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Is your issue that you are a liberal wanting Jefferson's company? Jefferson was a liberal but ceased to function as the liberal half of the American political dialogue and became instead the presiding presence who stood above all political conflicts and parties. Your would do well to follow in his footsteps.
Also - quoted from Robert Louis Stevenson:
"To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser."
I'm thinking that you are over 40, but have maintained the same view since probably High School or College. Get a grip - get a program - get a life.
In addition, Jefferson held deep-seated racist values throughout his life - even he had lessons to learn.