Agreed Bob. I was just trolling for neo-confederates (not many here I reckon) to slam Grant as a general and extoll Lee. IMO at least 50% of Lee’s brilliance was the incompetence of his adversaries. Don’t get me wrong, he was brilliant but if he tried that Chancellorsville crap against Grant…

Lee was a LOSER

never won a battle without Stonewall Jackson

Lee only looks like a competent commander because of the incompetence of McClelland Meade, Burnside and Hooker

Grant wasn’t a brilliant tactician or a craismatic leader, but he was good enough to kick Lee’s ass

Lee’s two offensive attacks ended in FAILURE

and that was against Union Generals that rated two steps below potzer level

Robert E Lee, a great General ??? what a joke

From Think Progress:

Milbank: ‘There Are Rumors About A Third [Page Scandal], This One Involving A 16-Year-Old Girl’

. . .

MILBANK: … Already, there are rumors now about a third, this one involving a 16-year-old girl. That’s been swirling around Washington today.

The real effect here is not necessarily with Kolbe, but that it just compounds that we have another one. And political news is starting to sound more and more like you’re reading the police blotter, with Ney last week, the eighth guilty plea or conviction in the Abramoff case, piled on top of Scooter Libby and Tom DeLay and Curt Weldon. It goes on and on.

And, of course, the punchline is that President Bush has declared this to be National Character Counts Week.

Think Progress is now reporting on a third page scandal, this time involving a 16 year old girl.

http://digg.com/politics/Rumor…..r_Old_Girl

Things are getting uglier by the minute.

“They never saw the pole vaulters coming.”

Cool! Conrad Burns said at his debate that Bush has a secret plan to win the war in Iraq. LMAO!

Ah, yes. Letting thousands of our soldiers get killed is all part of his clever plan to lull them into a false sense of security.

UptownNYChick @ 79

COLORADO BOB @ 75

UptownNYChick @ 74

COLORADO BOB @ 73

More thing about Grant … No Grant no America.

I live down the street from him.

Ever read his book ?

can’t say that I have, I should. I spend a lot of time at his place.

It was written at the urging of Mark Twain. Grant was bankrupt { His brother’s friends } and dying of throat cancer as he wrote it. He wrote it so his family wouldn’t be penny less. One of the best sellers of the 19th century, and one of the great American Memoirs. Next time your there tell I said hello.

His tomb is one of the best unknown places in NYC. A great park surrounds it. I like being up there

What kind of threshold back atcha, Wolfie, for hysterical, scare-tactic, Rethuglican enabling?

Burns Frags Irony?

If people are frightened away from the artifice of the modern colosseum they may pay attention to the (s)hallowed halls of government.