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Originally Posted by cthulu23
Boy, that's one screwed up view of Jefferson. Did you know that he wrote the first draft of the Virginia constitution and in it he made slavery illegal? That's not to say that he was racially "sensitive" in modern terms, but he was less conflicted than most of the other founding fathers. As for the "could not be bothered to attend" crack, he was serving abroad at the time...they didnt have 767s or transAtalantic cables back then, you know.
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The couldn't be bothered to attend crack was a little low
. But given the choice to not own slaves, he decided to own them. He was probably the most brilliant man to serve as president, but he was also the biggest hypocrite. One of my personal pet peeves is hypocracy. And when he is known most for his high-minded beliefs in liberty while he held slaves, he comes out a big hypocrite to me.