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Are you telling us that Lincoln and Sherman had absolutely no control over those truly terrible and horrific events in Georgia at that time? You should apply for Obama's press secretary's job. Maybe even Der Fuhrer's propaganda minister.
Krugman utterly despises conservatives, remember, so there's no way he's intentionally advancing this damning indictment to damage the president he'll support in the fall. Perhaps he just assumed that because he was among friends at Netroots Nation (you know, the conference that cheered abortion), he had extra latitude to...
where totally responsible and destruction was their intent.