How can you be so sure? George wasn’t perfect. In fact far from it.

At the age of ten, George inherited ten slaves; by the time of his death there were 316 slaves at Mount Vernon, including 123 owned by Washington, 40 leased from a neighbor, and an additional 153 “dower slaves” which were controlled by Washington but were the property of his wife Martha’s first husband’s estate.

I went to Mt. Vernon and walked through George and Martha’s home. Nice home. Then I walked through the slave quarters. Not so nice. Cold, wet and cramped.

I recall the info at the home saying George worked his slaves hard, from sunrise to sunset. Everyday of the year.

Oh, he did free his slaves: after he died and after Martha died. Great going.

George Washington was a great man in some ways but, forgive me for saying so, in other ways he was a simple scumbag slave owner.

Here’s one example:

“In 1780, a law known as the Pennsylvania Gradual Abolition Act was passed. It required that slaves brought to Pennsylvania and kept there be freed after six months.

Washington’s solution: rotate them.

“Washington would bring slaves into Pennsylvania,” Coard said. “Then he’d take them to New Jersey or take them back to Virginia, then bring them back. Then he’d start the clock all over again.”

http://www.kansascity.com/news/columnists/steve_penn/story/322008.html

George W, uhmm, not Bush, I mean George Washington wasn’t any man of perfection and at this point I would put Barack above Washington simply because he hasn’t used other humans as an asset for his business as Washington did.