'In Those Cotton Fields Down Home'

'Hi, I'm John Kelly, you can call me 'Johnny', as in 'Johnny on the spot', and I'd like to share a moment of forethought with you concwerning 'honorable people'. Well, I can tell you that my personal hero of the American Civil War was that "honorable" man, Robert E. Lee. What a guy! What a stand up 'American'! I just wish I could shake the hand of the man who defected from his Country in order to facilitate the secession of the south in their bid to continue the Slave trade. If ever a man should be commended for being an outright Traitor to his country, 'Bobby' is that guy! Of course we all 'know' that he, and he alone could have prevented that ugly little skirmish between the states if only the stubborn North had been willing to negotiate honorable terms, but through their "lack of an ability to compromise" he was forced to abandon the America he was born in, and fight for a rebellious illegal 'government' so that white farmers could continue to have 'free' labor in 'those cotton fields down home'. When I hear those 'southern pride' tunes flowing from my old Victrola, tears practically well up in my narrowly focused eyes. In my blind minds eye I can just see 'Bobby', big as life, as he figures a way to win an un-winnable insurrectionn against the government of the United States of America. What a stately figure! Fighting against all odds. Being mostly responsible for the senseless, and untimely deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both side of the conflict. Robert E. Lee, the poster boy for the definition of an "honorable' man!
My next 'hero', and most certainly an "honorable" man is my current boss, 'Big D', as I like to call him. I slather the praise all over him at a later musing. But hey, that's just me, and that's why I'm the White House Chief of Staff', and amateur historian, and you're not. Tune in again in the near future when I will muse on the virtues of Adolf Hitler and his personal 'Social Club' of faithful followers of the '30's and '40's.' ;) ;)


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Historians say John Kelly has the Civil War wrong

Historians say that White House chief of staff John Kelly's attribution of the origin of the Civil War to a "lack of an ability to compromise" misses the mark.

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