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sweinstein Wrote: 1 hour ago (4:45 PM)
Grant also died an alcoholic. So there goes your ridiculous metaphor.
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And if Obama dies a drug addict ... (please fill in the point you didn't make) ?
While many of our heroes have lost their gloss, Abraham Lincoln still shines brightly for many Americans because there is so much to learn from his life.
For example, in 1858 Abraham Lincoln was defeated in his race for the United States Senate by Stephen Douglas, making it Lincoln’s third electoral defeat in a row. As Lincoln emerged from the telegraph office into the rain-soaked street in Springfield, Illinois he lost his balance when his foot slipped on the slick boardwalk. Catching himself before he tumbled into the mud Lincoln muttered to under his breath, “A slip, but not a fall.”...
Thus anyone who is an alcoholic will die an alcoholic. That statement, that Grant died an alcoholic, is therefore meaningless.
Leave it to a a scumbag liberal troll to focus on how the man died instead of on what he did with his life. And leave it to a scumbag troll to cast the man's death in the most disparaging terms possible, that actually betray the ignorance of the troll and tell us so much more about him than about Grant.
booze.While we may have proclivities towards destructive behaviors,it is incumbant
upon us to make the choices to bring about said behavior.