I can’t go into it right this second, but even calling him a slaveowner is a glossing over of some nuance to his particular situation.

great one, Mike.

I took my kids to the local public library to get young son a book on GW. I want him to read it and write a report on it.

In the children’s biography section, black history month took over. There were books about W.E. DuBois, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King Jr., and JFK of all people (and others I can’t remember). But not one little smell of a George Washington book.

Do you hear me people? There was not a biography of George Washington at the library!!! What a pathetic note. We have gone off the rails and now the only question is: How many of us are going to die in the wreck?

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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I’m happy that your diary got promoted–It’s excellent.

Excellent job!

Here is what happened according to Snopes. Apparently it started with a desire to give people more three-day weekends, so they moved the day to always be on Monday. It is Washington’s Birthday as a federal holiday, but apparently its name and occurrence are different in different states, and states’ names for holidays is where “Presidents Day” got its momentum. And a bill was introduced in 2001 to force states to call it “Washington’s Birthday” but it died in subcommittee.

I don’t see whats wrong about changing a holiday for celebrating Washington’s birthday to one celebrating both Washington’s and Lincoln’s Birthday. I mean, if there was one guy who would share a holiday with Washington it would be Lincoln, right? (I mean apart from Hakeem Olajuwon or Earl Campbell.)

Also apparently the way the calendar works “Washington’s Birthday” will never actually fall on Washington’s Birthday. Because that makes total sense…

‘Abdication’ being, in my books, one of his most ‘MAN’ moments in a thoroughly ‘MAN’ life. The ancients would have called him a ‘real Roman’.

Really, one of my heros. To even imagine the scope of what the general accomplished… Ill admit it Im an Americophile, my Canadian-ess not withstanding. And Washington is one of the big reasons for such a country to even breath histories air.

And to think that people want a day where Washingtons genius is celebrated alongside the mud of non-men like Buchanan, Carter, and Clinton (just some unman presidents from top of head).

While I don’t dislike MLK (but, he was not a saint), it really irked me when they took Lincoln’s Birthday holiday and made it into MLK Day.

And it’s really racist to have a “Black HIstory Month” isn’t it? Where’s the “Italian History” or “White History” month?

But, I digress…
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Typical Republican liberal. he looks up the Federal law and ignores the sovereign states. This is from Wikipedia:

approximately a dozen state governments have officially renamed their Washington’s Birthday observances as “Presidents Day”, “Washington and Lincoln Day”, or other such designations. However, “Presidents Day” is not always an all-inclusive term.

In Massachusetts, while the state officially celebrates “Washington’s Birthday,” state law also prescribes that the governor issue an annual Presidents Day proclamation honoring the presidents that have come from Massachusetts: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, and John F. Kennedy.[2] (Coolidge, the only one born outside of Massachusetts, spent his entire political career before the vice presidency there. George H. W. Bush, on the other hand, was born in Massachusetts, but has spent most of his life elsewhere.)
Alabama uniquely observes the day as “Washington and Jefferson Day”, even though Jefferson’s birthday was in April.[3]
In New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois, while Washington’s Birthday is a federal holiday, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is still a state holiday, falling on February 12 regardless of the day of the week.
In California, Lincoln’s Birthday is also a legal state holiday, however, observance is frequently moved to the Monday or Friday occurring closest to February 12. When Lincoln’s Birthday is observed on the Friday preceding Washington’s Birthday, the resultant four-day weekend is commonly called “Presidents’ Day Weekend”, particularly by retailers in their sale advertisements.
In Washington’s home state of Virginia the holiday is legally known as “George Washington Day.”

I don’t really care much, I suppose it is OK to give Black Americans the MLK day because it makes sense to try to draw together and celebrate the civil rights movement.

Washington’s indispensable contributions are not discussed enough.

As for Lincoln. He gets way too much credit. Yes he held the union together, He did that by fighting an undoubtedly illegal war killing hundreds of thousands of people (though the constitution made no provision for secession the vast majority of thought at the time was that it was a legal remedy)

He only freed the slaves in the areas in which he had no current jurisdiction and only as a means to economically further the war effort. And all the crap about domestic oppression that the left ascribed to G W Bush? Lincoln really did that.

The result of this struggle was a good thing because we stayed a unified nation and slavery was discontinued. But that does not mean that his actions should be excused. None of us know how history would have unfolded if there had been no war.

My own guess is that slavery would have ended gradually because it was increasingly archaic and unprofitable as mechanization took hold. Furthermore, as the south continued to decline economically, relative the north, there would have been increasing pressure for a reunification.