Posted on 11/10/2009 10:15:17 AM PST by ikeonic
President Obama, stinging from criticism of what opponents have called his "apology tour" to places like Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, announced that he will visit Georgia next year to heal the wounds from America's Civil War.
Obama's visit will begin in Atlanta on September 2, where Sherman's march began and later that day he will visit Savannah, where Sherman concluded his march on December 22, 1864. Along the way, Sherman conducted total warfare and burned everything in sight, including private homes and businesses. By Sherman's own estimate, his army caused over $100 million in property damage in Georgia alone.
Off the record sources within the Administration confirm that the President will be sure to point out, as he has about America's involvement in World War II, that while America did not start the war, we did commit unspeakable horrors by using scorched-earth tactics against our enemy. The President will advocate that America must acknowledge our sins, confess them and move forward in a new spirit of peace and friendship.
President Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, is rumored to have strongly advocated for Obama's visit. Carter well knows how sensitive Southerners are to the scars left behind by "The War Between the States" as Carter calls it. Carter is a world renowned expert in Southern culture.
In 1978, Carter posthumously removed the limitation against Confederate President Jefferson Davis running for public office again. Davis had been dead for nearly 90 years but the uber-compassionate Jimmy Carter knew how much the gesture would do to heal the wounds of war. Now Carter feels that Obama's visit to Atlanta will go a long way towards completing the healing process.
Carter recently said of Abraham Lincoln:
"[Lincoln] ignores the fact that the tragic combat might have been avoided altogether, and that the leaders of both sides, overwhelmingly Christian, were violating a basic premise of their belief as followers of the Prince of Peace." ... Carter concluded: "A legitimate question for historians is how soon the blight of slavery would have been terminated peacefully in America, as in Great Britain and other civilized societies."Carter believes Lincoln was wrong for not negotiating with the Confederacy for a two state solution. Lincoln was obviously a warmonger who unfairly attacked the Southern states, who were only trying to peacefully force slavery on the Northern states and Western territories. After all, Jesus would have peacefully freed his slaves in due time just as the South surely would have.
Hey, at least the slaves got free food, housing, health care and a good Christian education as all of Carter's ancestors saw fit to give their slaves. They were even such good Christians as to give them whiskey at Christmas. Surely, Jesus would do the same for his slaves.
But for the sake of argument and sarcasm aside, let's just say Carter is right about the Civil War being a most un-Christian action by America's military. President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy was summed up as "Peace Through Strength". Perhaps Obama/Carter's foreign policy is best summed up as "Drop your drawers and turn the other cheek."
"Give Em Hell" Zell Miller must go half insane every time Obama or Carter opens their mouth.
Is this satire? Things are so messed up nowadays, I can’t even tell anymore.
I take it this is not sarcasm????
Heck, he should apologize for slavery and segregation - both actively supported by the Democratic Party.
Lincoln was as much of an ass as Obama.
Come on guys, Sherman’s march and aftermath populated Texas.
Most of my ancestors were literally burned out of Alabama during Reconstruction.
But-out of the Deep South and Texas Obozo. Your a total idiot and unwelcome here.
That said, I have never never voted for a Democrat for National Public Office. Always Republican. Because the Left took over the Democrat party more than 35 years ago.
Now they are a step worse than Lefties (Commies) and are now TRAITORS to the Nation.
An Atlanta-area sheriff pulled over a “yankee”-plated car for doing 17mph over the speed limit.
Sheriff: “Boy, do you know how fast you were going?”
Yankee” “Not as fast as Sherman.”
WE WANT REPARATIONS!
Zer0 needs to apologize for supporting Jihad.
Maybe he can find a descendent of Lord General Cornwallis to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The next president should also go on an apology tour....and apologize that America ever turned this Bozo loose on the world!
Please . . . . . . Odumbbell doesn't need help. He has a whole staff to give him stupid ideas . . . . .
LOL!!!
I live here in GA, and that useless post turtle can pi$$ off, we don’t want to hear it or anything else coming out of his lying mouth. If he really had any sympathy with the South and the Confederacy, he would honor the Constitutional rights of the individual states to make their own decisions for their citizens, and quit trying to become another Mao Tse Tung or Stalin. A$$#ole.
Don’t laugh. My wife, driving a Rhode Island plated car, got pulled over doing 81 in a 65 mph zone on I-95 in Arlington, VA. Because she mistakenly thought they really drove like Smokey and the Bandit movies down South and that Virgina was in the South. Fifteen over the limit is “reckless driving by speed” in Virgina, requires a court appearance and carries a $2,500 penalty. The nice young trooper wrote her up for 79 mph. She had been doing 95 mph in North Carolina. I think that involves handcuffs.
Enough of this apology tour.
Scorched earth might happen again.
But a lot bigger and a lot worse this time around.
Yes, it was meant as satire.
Obama apologizes for the South to the world, he would never, ever consider apologizing to the South. Besides, Jimmy Carter already apologized to the South.
“we did commit unspeakable horrors by using scorched-earth tactics against our enemy”
That is the only acceptable way to fight a war!!!
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