-=> FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to LEE LOFASO <=-   
      
    -> Slavery was an issue the Framers of the Constitution deliberately   
    -> put off, as it was too divisive.  Unfortunately, no peaceful solution   
    -> was able to be found, with the result being a war pitting fathers   
    -> against sons, and brothers against brothers.  A tragedy for us all.   
      
    FS> The Founding Fathers ('scuse the non-politically-correct term) did not   
      
   What's non-politically correct about "Founding Fathers"? Those mothers were   
   all men. Even if, statistically, one or more of them might have been queer.   
      
    FS> mention slavery in the constitution since they assumed it would vanish   
    FS> of its own accord.  And it probably would have.  After all, Political   
      
   Slavery is extremely inefficient, both politically and economically.   
      
    FS> Correctness did not arise because of the Emancipation Proclamation --   
    FS> it was a natural outgrowth of the mess Lyndon Johnson made of his   
    FS> presidency.   
       
   Agree that Lyndon Bird Johnson made a mess of his presidency. Disagree that   
   political correctness is a natural outgrowth of that mess. More like,   
   political correctness is an outgrowth of Dr. Spock (the real one, not the   
   character Leonard Nimoy portrayed - Nanoo, nanoo).    
      
   ... GOP 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job.   
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