Posted on 11/01/2009 8:55:40 PM PST by bogusname
After four years of Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over 1 million casualties, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean in the town of Appomattox Court House,Virginia on April 9, 1865...
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And thus ended America’s noble experiment in popular self government, to be replaced by an ever expanding empire.
To expect Reid and Pelosi to be ashamed is asking too much. They have no honor.
It is not over just yet
That’s quite true.
I'll believe it when the first state secedes and gets away with it.
I call it as I see it. Reid and Pelosi are traitors to the republic.
Don't sweat it too much. Obama is as about as popular as a dose of the clap. Jimmy Carter doesn't have to worry about being the worst president ever. He is only second worst.
Well I don’t know about that. To beat Carter he’s going to have to find a significant enemy to try to surrender to. Those middle aged pedophiles playing pirate colony in the mountains of Pakistan don’t count.
It would seem he already has. Russia, North Korea, Venezuela: must I go on? Let us not forget Iran.
I remember the old novelty cigarette lighters which said:
LEE SURRENDERED, BUT DAMNED IF I WILL
“LEE SURRENDERED, BUT DAMNED IF I WILL”
Our numbers are growing even if the Democrats and the MSM don’t think so. I posted a poll a little while back that showed that conservatives now out number liberals 2 to 1.
Tolerance isn’t working.
Lee took a strategic time out, knowing that the South would rise again. One hundred and forty-four years have passed. We have another psuedodictator in office who cares as much for the Constitution as the other man from Illinois.
The winds are blowing; there is a storm abrewing.
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