You can bad mouth Joe Wilson all you want, but he's got the balls to say what is on his mind...and he isn't hiding behind a press card. You assume much when you say he "embarrassed his home state". If anything, we should all be proud of Joe for trying to staunch the flow of taxpayer money that the country bleeds out while supporting illegal immigration.

"If it really came down to choosing between South Carolina and Craigslist, how many people would rather have South Carolina?" Uh, obviously Lincoln did. But then Lincoln was known for closing northern newspapers that didn't support his war effort: You know...the conflict most of us see as the War of Northern Aggression, or the War for Southern Independence. I bet Obama would choose SC, too.

As great a president as Lincoln was, he definitely made some mistakes. If he could have foreseen the future, he would have let the South go, and let them be a third-world border state between us and Mexico.

"You know...the conflict most of us see as the War of Northern Aggression, or the War for Southern Independence. "

Who exactly is 'most of us'? Are you referring to people in the South that still can't get their mouths and minds around the concept of a Civil War?

It still amazes me that that particular war is continually being fought, culturally in so many ways.

Boy it must piss you off that a black man is your President...considering how ticked off you are still that we took your slaves away.

Secede already. Jesus. We'll find a way to make up for the lost pork rind revenue.

What was it that dude said back in 1860 about South Carolina? "To small for a republic, too large for an insane asylum." Some things never change.