Obama: "Thomas Jefferson's opponent tried to stir things up by suggesting he was a muslim"

[Renew Deal]

"So i'm in good company"

21 minutes in

[randys1]

1. The single most inclusive, positive thinking, reasonable and decent man or Woman to

ever achieve to power.

And he is treated like garbage.

Didnt I hear the pricks went apeshit because he put his feet up on an ottoman in the WH or something?

[Shrike47]

2. I would advance Jimmy Carter as competition..

[randys1]

3. They tie then.

[gladium et scutum]

7. Not even close

Thomas Jefferson owned 700 slaves over his life time. Of that number he free 5 of them when alive and 5 were freed in his will after his death.

[randys1]

9. I said Carter and Obama tie as to best person to be prez.

[Yavin4]

4. I second that on Jimmy Carter.

To this day, they still rip him. No finer human being alive than President Carter.

[Bigmack]

6. TOTALLY agree nt Ms Bigmack

[KamaAina]

5. Barack has a shot at being just as good an ex-President as Jimmy.

It ought to be fun.

[Odin2005]

8. They also called him an Atheist and a Jacobin.

Some things never change.

[closeupready]

10. A fact that many wish were fiction, even on DU, is that he was inspired by the Koran

and read it frequently.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/29/thomas-jefferson-s-quran-how-islam-shaped-the-founders.html