Salmond’s Confederacy?

Alex Salmond has been in Washington, where he snagged an audience with Hillary Clinton and delivered a speech at Georgetown University. Hamish Macdonnell explains:

In a speech on Monday he took the time to praise Abraham Lincoln. This is what he said: “A man whose spirit and example will light America’s path for centuries to come. And a man whose name evokes, in the minds of your friends worldwide, the very highest image of America.” It did not take long, however, for Labour spin doctors to point out that Lincoln was, of course, the one man who did more to keep the Union in America together, even going to war and winning that war to prevent part of the country from separating and becoming independent. This part of Lincoln’s legacy was strangely absent from Mr Salmond’s address.