Jefferson's irony: Voice of liberty, slave owner - CBS News

Humans are fallible. Sometimes horribly so. Thomas Jefferson is no exception.

That said, considering one of our major political parties just finished running a candidate for president who believed African-Americans were undeserving of salvation for most of his life and that 47% of his fellow citizens were beneath his contempt, we sure the hell haven't improved from the slave owning creator of the Declaration of Independence.