peatbog <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't want to hijack the thread, but if Rich Lott is a [political] > nitwit, that says more about the pathetically cringing state of our society > than it does about him. > Nope. There has not been a time since 1939 when this would not have been political suicide. If this is "pathetic cringing" we have been doing it for 70 years. I have no moral objection to Iott's hobby. It is unseemly, at worst. However, if you ever plan to run for political office this is the sort of thing you must *never*, *ever*, do. It is like telling people that when you were in college you dabbled in witchcraft and you campaigned against masturbation. Some things are best left unsaid. > Would these same accusers point a finger at Civil War Confederate > reenactors and say they are all racially prejudiced?” > The ones I have met sure are. Re-enacting any war seems kind of gross to me. I have to say though, the Civil War re-enactors have done some good. They help preserve battlefields, and they served as the massive volunteer cast in the movie "Gettysburg." That wasn't a very good movie but it does give a sense of what it was like, and it shows many nice views of Adams County, which is a beautiful place with wonderful apples and nice people. That movie was filmed on the actual location in 1993 with the statues and modern roads digitally erased. The book the movie is based upon, M. Shaara, "The Killer Angels" is much better than the movie. Highly recommended. - Jed
