Comment of the Day

Justin Raimondo, February 08, 2012

“I should confess that I’m not a huge fan of presidential monuments anyway, because they reinforce popular deference to executive authority and strengthen the growing tendency to view our presidents as akin to monarchs but with term limits. But I’ll concede that a handful of presidents have performed acts of leadership, wisdom and courage that can provide enduring inspiration for subsequent generations, and that memorials on the Mall to a very few might be in order.”

– Stephen Walt



10 Responses to “Comment of the Day”

  1. liberal
    February 8th, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Lincoln and Washington.

  2. Brian M
    February 8th, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    Lincoln? Maybe. He sorta set the stage for the centralizing State. Not too fond of the prison camps or the suspension of habeus corpus either?????

  3. Richard
    February 8th, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    George Washington certainly. Abraham Lincoln was one of the greatest mass murders of modern history, and directly responsible for the deaths of 620,000 people including unarmed women and children, and was the role model of Adolph Hitler. The Lincoln Memorial is an affrotn and a disgrace to the meaning of the United States of America, and it should be torn down.

  4. nobodyimportant
    February 8th, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    jefferson davis, last president who abided by the constitution.

  5. Curious
    February 8th, 2012 at 11:55 pm

    I agree, sadly those Presidents aren't remembered. We have an elected tyranny and the worst Presidents are deified.

  6. liberal
    February 9th, 2012 at 5:39 am

    Yet another apologist for slavery.

  7. liberal
    February 9th, 2012 at 5:39 am

    Yep, that slavery issue was just gonna fade away in due time…uh huh.

  8. John
    February 9th, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    Lincoln wasn't a very popular president until he was assassinated. Certainly George Washington makes the list of great presidents. But the greatest of them all are the ones that aren't remembered well because they kept the peace.

  9. R.Parker
    February 10th, 2012 at 1:22 am

    Not Hitler, but Stalin perhaps. Unlike Lincoln, Hitler had principles and did not start a war. Karl Marx actually wrote to Lincoln praising him for being a champion of the working classes.

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