Posted on 09/13/2008 8:00:11 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
On ABC's "The View" on September 12, Whoopi Goldberg asked Senator John McCain if she should worry about being made a slave again once he becomes president. Newsflash, Whoopi: There was this little fracas we call the Civil War where six hundred thousand Americans died and that resulted in the elimination of slavery from existence. Oh, and Whoopi, it happened nearly 150 years ago! Just trying to help you with that whole "history" thing, Whoopster.
Apparently, Whoopi is unaware that slavery was removed from the Constitution, because during a discussion about the Law of the Land on the TV talk show, Whoopi wondered if she should "worry" about being cast into chattel slavery should John McCain get in office and institute his desires that strict construction of the Constitution be observed by his judicial picks.
The subject of how McCain would handle the Roe v Wade abortion situation is what prompted Whoopi to blurt out her uninformed view of the Constitution.
Transcript:
McCain: And I believe if Roe v Wade were overturned then the States would make these decisions.
Whoopi: Can you just, and I don't want to misinterpret what you're saying, did you say you wanted strict Constitutionalists because that, that...
McCain: No I want people who'll interpret the Constitution of the United States the way our Founding Fathers envisioned for them to do...
Whoopi: Should I be worried about being a slave, returned to slavery, because certain things happened n the Constitution that you had to change.
McCain: No I understand your point.
Whoopi: OK, OK.
Take a chill pill, Whoopi. Slavery is against the law and our moral code. So, don't "worry" about anyone wanting you for their slave. And a little peek into a history book or two might help you, as well.
Oh, and one other little small historical note, Whoopi. You can't be "returned" to slavery. Neither you nor any other black American has ever been in slavery....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Can Whoopi read?
Oh my goodness. This has to be the female version of jerry springer.
I only saw clips but what a circus. I give Cindy McCain alot of kudos for standing up to their not so cute attacks regarding their many homes.
...err.... uhhhh.. Whoppie, slavery being a right was never in the Constitution. At that, the Constitution set the stage for the ending of slavery and the complete banning of slavery was added as part of the Constitution..
jeeze...
McCain should have answered, “No, not as long as I am a member of the Party Of Lincoln”
Is it me or is the view biased?
Obama and McCain On The View
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LJLtLQiwi8
I know McCain has to be polite on these shows but I don’t understand why he didn’t respond by saying, “Well we have this thing called the 13th Amendment, so slavery is permitted in this country any more. And I will appoint judges that will respect the text of the Constitution so that we will neither ignore what the Constitution says nor invent things that are not in there.”
I wish our political candidates didn’t have to go on these shows. It’s beneath their dignity IMHO.
The girls on the view are pure comedy. After all, when Rosie was on there, she promoted her conspiracy theories. I think it was great for John to be there. It gave the people another chance to see the endless ignorance of the far left
Four rabid liberals and one sweet, but not the most powerful Conservative. Biased may be too light of a word.
Who would want this sexist pig elected, in a country were one out of four women are abused by men, and where men still make more than women for doing the same job ( and that is true in the obama campaign, the men are making more than the women for the same job), oh by the way Whoopi, this pic of Obammy was alter in the nose and lips, but the eyes have not been changed. The original pic was taken in debate with Hillary this is Obama looking down his nose at Hillary.
That dumb woman should’ve been reminded that the Dred Scott decision was a form of judicial activism run amok, the very thing that Republicans are against.
Whoopi, what you do in your personal life is none of our business.
I understand that candidates can’t get into peeing contests, but I would not have been so accomodating.
“Whoopie, neither abortion or slavery has ever been written into the Constituition. There is nothing a strict constitutionalist could or would do, to change that.”
Who does she think would be stupid enough to buy her if she was put up on the block anyway? Does she have any valuable job skills?
Mighty dim bulb..
ROFLOL!!
Corect except no one on the View, maybe Haselbeck, would have gotten your point.
Is the abolishment of slavery mentioned in the Constitution?
Yes.
Is abortion mentioned anywhere in the Constitution?
No.
So, then what?
Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What does that mean if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
It means that each State would decide for itself if abortion is legal or illegal in that State as the Constitution intended as per the Tenth Amendment.
What would it take to make abortion a Constitutional right if the Constitution says what it means and means what it says?
It would take the ratification of a Constitutional Amendment declaring that abortion is a Constitutional right.
So, why do we have Roe v. Wade?
Because, politically, the pro-abortion forces could never muster the votes to ratify an Abortion Rights Amendment so they resorted to blatantly ignoring the meaning of the Constitution.
I just banned myself from this thread based simply based on my thoughts, which express my full, true feelings concerning abysmally ignorant, talentless race pigs like “Goldberg”.
I know McCain couldn’t answer her in a flippant way, but IF HE COULD it would have nice to hear him say, “Whoopi, I’ve actually BEEN chained up and beaten. HAVE YOU?”
The three witches on the left side of the couch couldn’t even be gracious enough to clap for McCain when the audience was. The audience in many instances was clearly on McCain’s side. Even gave him (and Cindy) standing ovations when they came on stage.
Whoopi would make a great Slave Trader. Shouldn’t a comedian be funny every decade or so?
Pray for W, Mccuda and Our Troops
Slavery was made unconstitutional by amending the Constitution according to the procedures set forth in it. Roe v. Wade made outlawing abortion unconstitutional by means of judges imposing their own policy preferences using elastically vague concepts found in constitutional jurisprudence.
Woopie doo. Liberal ignorance knows no bounds.
Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Hey Whoopi, your masters take half of what you earn. You think you’re not already a slave?
The dead sea scrolls suggest that Jesus spent some time with the Essenes while he wandered in the desert. Their philosophy was communal in nature so I guess Jesus might be considered a "Community Organizer" Of course a beautiful behavior is often spoiled by the arrogant simpletons who come after.
The 19th Century saw the rise of a new group of Community Organizers. The philosopy was advocated by Marx and Engels. Then in the 20th century the philosophy was applied by the likes of Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro and the other Dictators of the Prolitariet.
Government takes and gives! Education is supposed to be equal and egalitarian!!! National Health Care is promised. BTW if you didn't like this societal system you are denounced and sent to a Mental Hospital, Siberia or on long marches into the jungle from which you did not return. The real argument is exactly how many died due to this form of Community Organization. 150 Million is a good estimate!
Whoopie would you allow this form of Slavery?
Let's not forget that the Democratic Party has had it's share of Community Organizers. Sen Byrd of West Virginia comes from a long line of Kommunity Organizers who weren't exactly looking afte the African Americans after the Civil War. Southern Democrats organized their school system so that Segregated Schools were a fact of life. It took heros like Rosa Parks to rebel. And that other Ike who tore through the South unblocking the school house doors was a Republican community organizer who operated in everyone's best interest.
IMHO Martin Luther King would spit on the likes of Obama. Yeah, wasn't his executioner one of those KKKommunity Disorganizer?
He should have thats what some of these people need a huge slap upside the head
If you mean would you be forced back into a relationship with Ted Danson, the answer is no.
Whoopi cries foul at the prospect of ‘Strict Constitutionalists’ or ‘Strict Constructionists’ on the Supreme Court. Well, neither approach is something any Justice would use on the Supreme Court. She most likely means a ‘Constitutional Originalist’ approach, which at its worst doesn’t allow for slavery to be re instituted in the Union.
Second, the Civil War didn’t end slavery in the United States. The 13th Amendment did. It was drafted and ratified. Slavery is illegal as a clear matter of constitutional law - an originalist approach (or even a strict constructionist approach) wouldn’t find slavery legal in the USA, since the 13th Amendment explicitly forbids it.
And yours is the DEFINITIVE response.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n26_v84/ai_14488564
Whoopi Goldberg defends Ted Danson’s blackface act at Friars Club roast
Jet, Oct 25, 1993
Whoopi Goldberg recently scolded critics who attacked her boyfriend, former “Cheers” star Ted Danson, as racist for appearing in blackface at a Friars Club roast in her honor, saying they should have expected tasteless, vulgar humor.
To diffuse the firestorm of controversy generated by Ted Danson’s appearance in blackface at the Friars Club roasting of her, Goldberg is urging the public to remember that those roasts are traditionally x-rated affairs with no-holds barred comments.
(snip)
Danson, who starred opposite Goldberg in Made In America, cut loose with a barrage of sexual jokes, most of which dealt with Black stereotypes, and he used the term “n*****” more than a dozen times during the evening. He also spoke graphically about his sex life with Goldberg and her private parts.
According to Danson, when he took Goldberg home to meet his parents in June 1992, she “fitted right in” because she did the dishes and the laundry. He went on to describe their wild sexual antics upstairs and said his concerned mother came to the door distressed over the possibility of their having children.
(snip)
For Danson’s finale, a waiter brought out a tray of watermelon, which Danson wolfed down. “I do believe I remember you saying, |I dare you!,” as Goldberg rolled with laughter. (snip)
Maybe Whoopi should learn a little history about Biden’s home state.
The first of the 13 colonies to formally legalize slavery - Delaware
Delaware voted on February 18, 1865 to reject the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution and so voted unsuccessfully to continue slavery beyond the Civil War. Delaware symbolically ratified the amendment on February 12, 1901—40 years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery ended in Delaware only when the Thirteenth Amendment took effect in December 1865. Delaware also rejected the 14th amendment during the Reconstruction Era.
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery,
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments, first intended to secure the rights of former slaves.
I wonder if the irony is lost on Whoopi (Ok, I know it is) that she is complaining about being a slave to the the only presidential candidate who actual knows the hell of being held in slavery and brutal captivity.
Or that a *Republican* president was responsible for the emancipation proclamation....while Dems were responsible for the KKK, Jim Crow laws and segregation.
The part I loved was at the end Baba Wawa asked John McCain to invite Palin to come on the show and tell her how nice they all were to him.
She has not a clue nor do I but the left is scart to death and I love it
This lunacy coming from Whoopi doesn’t surprise me at all, considering that she’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
McCain should not have appeared on this program. You can’t have an intelligent political conversation with any of them, and particularly Barbara Walters.
“Is it me or is the view biased?”
It’s NOT you. Yes, it’s biased. Extremely.
Oh! And by the way Whoopi, the Democrats were the only “pro-slavery” party.
this is how the libs work
Zzzzzzziiing! Good one!
Your ancesters, if you ever were a decendent of a slave, were forever freed.
If you want to continue to be a martyr even though you were never a slave, I'll let you clean my 18 room house. It's normally spotless but it will give you a sense of purpose to go along with that perpetually chip on your shoulder.
My thoughts too. Thinking about the difference between our side and how it interviews people with different beliefs and their side. We have people that actually can form an argument, are smart, and are fair--thinking of people like Hewitt, Prager, Medved, Bennett compared to their side.
I guess since we mostly only see and hear their Hollyweird elite supporters, that says it all.
When is the DemonRat party going to tell these self-appointed "smart people" from the entertainment world to just "STFU!!!!?????"
SOT :>)
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