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Thread #60534 Message #969234
Posted By: Don Firth
19-Jun-03 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: First Iraq, now Iran. Then North Korea
Subject: RE: BS: First Iraq, now Iran. Then North Korea
Jeez, Teribus! Missed the point again!!
Sure, George Washington had wooden teeth and probably talked funny as a result, and several of them (Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, e.g.) couldn't keep their codpieces buttoned (not unlike a recent president), and some of them did own slaves--and there may not have been any "founding mothers" in evidence--but aren't you trying to put them down by judging them by the standards of current times rather than the standards of their own times? If you judge them by the standards of the century in which they lived, they were true visionaries. Contrary to what you seem to be implying, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were not written on toilet paper by a bunch of thugs. Flawed men they may have been ("Let he who is without sin. . . ."), but they wrote a couple of documents that have stood this country in good stead for over two centuries now.
Just because the current administration finds these documents damned inconvenient is no reason to condone wadding them up and flushing them down the toilet!