Comment Re:Idiots (Score 1) 350
On the other hand, when I was a child, Lincoln was presented in my public-school education as though he was practically a Saint... which of course you and I know is not so. But then you and I probably know more about it than most.
It's still the same today. My daughter came home with "they said Lincoln started the Civil War to free the slaves. Is that true?"
I had to explain to her that her teachers probably weren't lying, per se, just ignorant.