Posted on 05/14/2012 4:47:38 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
(CBS News) Speaking to Barnard University's graduating class on Monday, President Obama challenged the young women to persevere in the fight for equality through leadership, touting a pro-woman message and emphasizing his hopes that today's young women "will help lead the way" for change in America.
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Too bad the teleprompters were not polls or he could have really showed them something.
Something the Founders warned against.
Their warnings were ignored.
The Republican Party was the first major U. S. political party to promote and defend the rights of women, including the right to equal pay for equal work.
It has been well documented that the Republican Party has historically supported the civil rights of African Americans. The Civil War was waged under a Republican president in order to abolish slavery and protect the unity of the United States.
In 1856, only five years prior to the outbreak of that war, the Republican Party was founded and its main motivation was the abolition of slavery. The Republican Party fought against the Democratic Party, which opposed equal rights for blacks with its alliance with the Ku Klux Klan and its passage of the Jim Crow laws.
Just as the Republican Party was responsible for promoting and defending the civil right of blacks against the Democratic Party, which fought to retain the second-class citizenship of African Americans, the Republican Party has also been the party of equal opportunity for women.
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“Their warnings were ignored.”
These days, their warnings were more often not heard. Schools are too busy talking about Harriet Tubman et al. to talk about the founding of the freest, most prosperous nation ever seen.
I heard parts of Obama’s speech today. I firmly believe he wants to not only create havoc but destroy anything seen as traditional and will use any opportunity to achieve his desires. Here is text:
This oxymoronic statement is precisely the problem. People like Obama have no idea what equality actually is. In a society based on the conception of equality we would judge people on the basis of their thoughts, creativity, actions, and displayed compassion toward others; not on the basis of whether or not they went to Barnard, or Harvard, or Princeton etc.
The left is by far more hierarchical than the right has ever been. It's just that the criteria with which the left judges are politically correct criteria. It's all about ‘what prep school and university did you attend?’, who did you ‘intern’ with, and you get lots of extra points if you are neither white nor American born. Among the left are the most prejudiced and hateful people living in America - or elsewhere.
I have a friend who works at a very exclusive prep school, and stated publicly that the children who attend there ‘are the future leaders of America’. Really? Why? Because someone had the money to send their child to a prep school that costs more than many colleges?
The bottom line is that Obama’s speech had nothing to do with service, or humility, or preservation of innocence and integrity. It had everything to do with payback for erroneously perceived wrongs that were likely never experienced by those on the left conveniently motivated by them.
What he is saying is ‘fight for control, and then stick it to em’. He's not a nice person, and his perceptions are farther from the truth than we are from the farthest visible galaxy. But hey, he was student president of the Harvard Law Review.
Sometimes I truly wish I could just be a truck farmer, growing enough to eat, and earning enough to keep away from the insanity that is embraced by those in our major urban centers who are too blinded by ideological ignorance to even know how pathetically stupid they are acting.
Bath-House Barry doesn’t pay women as much as the men in his administration.
"Equality' is a sales term for a very bad idea; nothing more. Obama knows it; and the buyer; 'should'. . .
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