Hes the best guy with the best personality in the Game. His Bodyguard Galmar might be but Ulfric is not. Hes a Revolutionary fighting for his Country and Freedom hes like our Founding Fathers hes trying to get his Country to be free from a curropt and dying Empire also like our Founding Fathers did. There are ALOT of parallels between our Revolutionary war and Skyrims War, And The Revolutionary Militia and The Stormcloaks. All the Empire wants to do is take Skyrims Resources and tell them what to do and take away their Freedom also like the British did.
No, if you believe that about America then you are delusional.
Before you go on about how I am an "Anti American Troll" as well, then stop.
I was born in America, and continue to live in America.
Our "democratic" system is completely screwed up, we don't even elect our president (we
suggest to the Electoral College on who they should vote for, but they don't have to vote for that person, and the best example is from the 2000 elections), and our country likes to stick their idiotic asses into every country just because they don't like America (because that will definitely make them like America more, even though they didn't attack us to begin with (but that's a different rant).
Anyways, back onto Skyrim:
It as already been stated very well Wandervon on why it shows many times why it is hard to even side with Ulfric.
Except I will add that Ulfric wasn't placed by the Thalmor, but they are using his "lust for power" to take down the Empire, and he does hate the Thalmor as well, but doesn't understand what he's doing.
But, I guess it is easy to side with him when you are already blind to real politics.