Democrats Need a History Lesson on the Emancipation Proclamation

National Review on Line ^ | November 20, 2014 | John S. Rosenberg

[yoe]

Speaking to Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren after the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi attempted to justify his unilateral action raising the minimum wage of federal contractors; she acknowledged that it would be “much better for Congress to act and for it to be the law of the land more generally.” “But, I remind you,” Pelosi added, “the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order, many things that happened over time that would not have ever happened waiting for Congress, but then Congress followed through with, in fact, abolishing, you know, slavery.”

Actually, no, we don’t know that. Congress, “in fact,” did not abolish slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution did.

No less confused about our history is Pelosi’s assistant, Assistant Democratic Leader ( Representative James Clyburn) (D, S.C.), who told Huffington Post that he feels “very strongly” that the president should take executive action to prohibit discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transsexuals, even though the Congress has refused to pass legislation (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, discussed here) to do that. Clyburn pointed out that “it was an 1863 executive action by President Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, that led to the end of slavery. I don’t know where I would be today if the executive order had not been used to get rid of slavery,” Clyburn concluded.

[yoe]

Folks please send these remarks by Pelosi and Clyburn to your list....it shows how utterly ignorant these two semi-socialists,elected are and how they think that American's are just as unaware of our history as they seem to be. The left have been for years tampering with our school history books...re-writing and giving only the chosen publishing companies taxpayer money to publish altered books. This is what you get....two over paid elected officials. Retire them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They already know that. They are just repeating the lie for their uneducated voter base.

[Know et al]

Nazi Palosi probably thinks Hitler's “Final Solution” was like Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

[yoe]

(date a type-o...real date here)

[DoughtyOne]

Lincoln: Emancipation Proclamation

Democrats: Emancipation Falsification

[DoughtyOne]

Exactly!

[Argus]

I don’t expect a bunch of pandering traitors to know anything about the Founding, or care. They need to be ignored.

[skinkinthegrass]

OH! they know it, that why they're "the party of the KKK"..(they're mindset)
"black ppl. must stay on the Liberal plantation/forceably helded".
(no projection req'd., look @ their publications over time/the results)

[Regulator]

I don’t know where I would be today if the executive order had not been used to get rid of slavery

Right where the Radical Republicans put you: out of bondage with the 13th Amendment.

And the Emancipators would be appalled that you aligned yourself with the Rat party.

[Dqban22]

Obama Was Against Illegal Immigration Before He Was For it

by Selwyn Duke

17 November 2014

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19547-obama-was-against-illegal-immigration-before-he-was-for-it?tmpl=component&print=1

“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers threatens to depress further the wages of blue- collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” (The opinion of the anti-illegal-alien crusader Barack HusseiObama from his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)

Obama had super majority in both cameras during the first two years of his presidency, but he didn’t give the amnesty during his first 100 days as he promised to those living illegally in the country… Furthermore, as senator, Obama opposed George W Bush when the republicans tried to give a legal status to those living illegally in U.S.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them

http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html

[boop]

IIRC, Eddie Murphy did a bit on The Emancipation Proclamation on Weekend Update on SNL.

"What bothers me is that Lincoln never SIGNED it. So black people are still slaves. White people: go up to the next black person you see and take them home. They're yours."

[Baladas]

These two are hopeless. With their ideology, they’ve been adept at ignoring history lessons throughout their political careers. NR is wasting its breath here.

[Know et al]

I honestly believe he is doing this for spite. He probably doesn't care whether it is successful or not. He is agitating American citizens and getting back for the midterms.

If the feckless GOP lets him get away with it, all the better. If not he can blame them for not being able to keep his promise.

You are dealing with an amoral person.

[JSDude1]

Time for a renewed Tea Party “March on Washington!”?

[Verginius Rufus]

For the record, Eddie Murphy was wrong. Lincoln did sign it.

He issued it on the authority of his power as Commander-in-Chief, so not comparable to Obama's action.

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[Vince Ferrer]

There is also quite a bit of a moral difference as well. The slaves were innocent, the illegals are criminals.

[clearcarbon]

"I don’t know where I would be today if the executive order had not been used to get rid of slavery,” Clyburn concluded."

If comrade obama is successful in his endeavors, Clyburn's going to find out.

[Zionist Conspirator]

What could any Democrat possibly know about Abraham Lincoln?