Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial?

[Carl Remick]

Re Barkely's:  "BTW, in his later years Jefferson wrote things 
suggesting opposition to slavery.  Of course he 
hypocritically continued to keep slaves, and in contrast to 
George Washington, did not free them on his death.  This 
may have reflected his personal financial profligacy as 
much as any moral/political failing."

This puts me over the limit for today, but I see Jefferson's failings as
all of a piece.  I think, for instance, that his "personal financial
profligacy" *was* a moral failing.  The man died hopelessly in debt --
not because he had simply been trying to make ends meet but because he
was a greedy SOB.  As I said yesterday his accomplishments in design,
etc., were carried out largely
by stolen labor and money.  I see Monticello as no more than a monument
to self-indulgence.

Carl Remick