hahayouarefunny (August 24, 2008 at 3:41 am)

Wow, isn't it amazing that McCain placed behind people who weren't even running?Iowans, vote Obama!

typeinbolivianbug (August 6, 2008 at 10:58 pm)

republicans side with the argument that is easier to convince to the average rednecked idiot.

sfgiantsballin (January 20, 2008 at 6:22 pm)

Sour cream and beer do not mix

pawtrammell (January 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm)

I don't agree with what Lincoln said at all. But are you denying that Lincoln said it?

calculeen (January 4, 2008 at 6:32 pm)

What??? you guys are crazy...im from argentina, i cant believe that!!! "i rather have united..blas bla, where slavery was legal"??? men...

pawtrammell (December 31, 2007 at 12:36 am)

That's the point: if they only wanted to free the slaves, they could have bought+freed them; the civil war was NOT about slavery, but secession.Nothing in the Constitution prohibits secession.Nothing allows it, but states may do anything not on a certain list (Article 2, I think). Also, the states were independent just after the Revolution and only united for defense, etc (Article 1, Sec. 8), so why can't they RETURN to independence? Lincoln didn't base his arguments on the Constitution.

lee2575 (December 30, 2007 at 7:57 pm)

It could have freed the slaves but could not have stopped the South from seceding. Lincoln based his arguements on the United States of American constitution running supreme.

blondtrumpet1 (December 13, 2007 at 12:21 am)

Go Huckabee!!! 1st place in Iowa with only 3 weeks until the caucus!!

pawtrammell (December 12, 2007 at 10:28 pm)

Lincoln said "I would rather have a united America in which slavery was legal throughout than a divided set of American states in which slavery was abolished in each." The Civil War was primarily about stopping the South from seceding, not slavery. The government could have bought and freed every slave with the amount spent on the war: this is how slavery was ended in many of the world's other previously-slave-owning nations. You may disagree with this viewpoint, but it is no "bald-faced lie."

blondtrumpet1 (December 10, 2007 at 6:01 am)

Huckabee 2008!!!