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Obama thinks platitudes like this will raise his popularity. It will - with those who don't think things through and simply react to how it feels.

I think Tubman deserves honoring, but not at the expense of another individual. In fact, re-writing history like this is foolish. As a Jew, I don't want Hitler forgotten - I want his photo everywhere. I want youth to know who he was and what happened, as if they don't, his evil deeds will be minimized and they WILL occur again. Liberals wanting all visual signs of slave-owners purged in the name of feeling good are risking youth not caring that slavery occurred at all. What, you say? They will teach it in the schools? It will mean NOTHING to these kids - they are simply too far away from it.

Being offended is a very, VERY important life-lesson. If you've never been offended or been faced with something offensive, you have no idea how NOT to offend others.  [/quote]
(Also a Jew) But would you really want Hitler to be prominently featured on the most popular bill in the treasury? One you'd get several of every time you go to the ATM? One you'd handle every day of your life? I sure wouldn't. I want the face of my country represented, with people who changed history and laws in our country for the better. Of [i]course[/i] that includes our founding fathers. But it also includes many, many women and people of color who aren't taught about as much in school.

FWIW, I'm a raging liberal, and I think the expunging of the names of slave owners and other people who have questionable history (beyond the good they did for our country) is ridiculous. And Alexander Hamilton, who was saved from being taken off of the $10, was a slave owner. [/quote]

Yes, I do. Why? Because look what happened with September 11th. What happened was not forgotten, but WHY has been whitewashed to the point where it's now OUR fault, according to liberals. WE provoked it. So yes, I want Hitler in everyone's face, ALL THE TIME.[/quote]

King George III would the be the more appropriate person to put on our currency then...or maybe Benedict Arnold, Jefferson Davis, Osama Bin Laden, and Robert E. Lee (a lot of people would love the latter).

Unfortunately, I think yours is the minority opinion here.[/quote]

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