Christopher Columbus was a man of his time. Sure what he did to the Indians were wrong by our standards today but they weren't so wrong by his standards back then. And yeah, Columbus didn't discovered the new world. I think the Vikings, Chinese and even Africans or Romans may have beaten him to the punch. And Indians immigrated to North and South Americas long before from the Asiatic continent. But Columbus did discovered the new world for the Europeans and opened up this world for the Europeans and their descendants. People like Elise are here because of Columbus and if she think Columbus did wrong, she can pack her bags and go back to Italy. Without Columbus, she won't be here. This is liberal hypocrisy at its worst. Condemning a man from a different time period, but yet taking advantages of what he did. Birth of the  United States is a direct result from actions and behavior of Columbus and his kind. If Columbus was wrong, our nation was wrong....Elise, aren't you pack yet???