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In reply to the discussion: Top 10 Greatest U.S. Presidents [View all]Dpm12
(512 posts)Secondly, not once did I say these are great people. If you read what I wrote, I said that most of them were douchebags and hypocrites. They were not/ARE not great people. I said that as PRESIDENTS, they did a good job. You do know that Lincoln, yes the one who freed the slaves, was racist and thought that blacks were inferior to whites, right? So, I guess you can't like Lincoln then. Just like ALL humans, me and everyone else including you, are not perfect right? These were men of their time. Doesn't make what they did right, but that doesn't mean that they didn't do good things too. Oh, and Hitler did do a few good things. He fixed Germany's economy after WWI, created the autobahn (a precursor to the Intersrate system here in the U.S.), made sure all Germans had radios, and created the Volkswagon Beetle. That DOESN'T mean Hitler was good, he was a terrible person, but you get the point. Michael Jackson raped kids, Jerry Lee Lewis fucked his 13 year old cousin, and Woody Allen married his stepdaughter. Does that mean we can't appreciate their art? Slavery was a horrible thing, no doubt about it, but that doesn't mean that Washington and Jefferson didn't do SOME good things. Without them, there wouldn't even be an America that we live in. Give them SOME credit. And, like I said, I'm black too, so there's no sense in playing the race card.