Posted on 12/22/2011 3:04:51 PM PST by Federalist Patriot
Now this is a great ad from American Crossroads! Let’s hope we see a 30-second or 1-minute version of this playing in 2012 during the General Election Campaign.
It uses Obama’s own words against him, where he recently decreed himself to be essentially the fourth best President in the history of the United States in terms of his accomplishments! There’s nothing like the ego of “The One.”
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomslighthouse.net ...
His historical society denies it but from what I’ve read it sure sounds like Buchanan was indeed a homo. I suppose the suggestion may have come from his political opponents?
“I suppose the suggestion may have come from his political opponents?”
Possible. But realistically, he was most likely a poof.
Don't you like how all totalitarians have noble purposes! I assume you think the noble purpose was to end slavery. But Lincoln kept that "purpose" a secret, didn't he. The idea the the WBTS was a war to end slavery was a post hoc justification as was the notion that slavery was the worst of all human conditions.
In fact there wasn't slavery only in the Southern Colonies, but pretty much all over the Western World in the 18th century. We were the only ones who ended it by killing the slave owners. Everywhere else it just died out with the rise of capitalism because slavery ddn't make economic sense.
They wanted the federal government to force Northern states to return escaped slaves after all!!!
Well gee, isn't that what the Northern States agreed to do? From Article IV of the United States Constitution:
No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.The new GOP Congress passed a constitutional amendment that would have prevented the abolition of slavery by the federal government. Not good enough for them, they were concerned about not only keeping but spreading slavery to the new states and they didn’t give much of a damn how people in those new states may have felt.
Actually I think they wanted the people in new States to be able to decide for themselves.
What I wanted to tell you is how ridiculous it is to compare Lincoln to our horrible 20th and 21st Century socialist Presidents. Our first truly terrible President was Woodrow Wilson.
I know you think it is ridiculous. But that is because you suffer from a government education. Read Charles Adams' When in the Course of Human Events or at least read the first user review at the Amazon link I've included. Read Fremantle's Three Months in the Southern States. He was there. He wasn't a Southerner. But somehow government schools never assign this book, I think, because the picture Fremantle paints is so different from the one the winning side wanted you to have.
I stand by my assertion that Lincoln is the one who dismantled the Government of Jefferson and Madison. In response to this one Ivy Civil War Professor's reaction was, "Well, he had help." That's not much of a defense.
ML/NJ
“Up yours, Pal.”
Hitting the egg nog a little early today, Mike??????
Oh well, Merry Christmas to yaz all.
Sort of strange thing to say for a guy who's replying to a post I made YESTERDAY.
BTW, I'm not an Egg Nog person, but I have been thinking cracking open some Bourbon.
ML/NJ
“BTW, I’m not an Egg Nog person, but I have been thinking cracking open some Bourbon.”
I don’t understand....do you mean that people drink egg nog without bourbon in it? Wow....who would have guessed!
I’m a sour mash/single malt kinda guy myself.
I agree hands down Lincoln the tyrant was the worst president ever.
Lincoln, FDR, LBJ. The Bozo doesn’t realize it but these men are truly among the WORST Presidents in American History.
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I agree
No question. It isn't even a close contest.
You’ve bought the hype. Lincoln was a ruthless butcher hell bent on consolidating Federal power. He accomplished that goal beyond his wildest dreams.
Let’s clarify things. You place the 11 seceding states of the Confederacy on the same moral plane as the Palestinians? Do I have that correct? Just checking.
ML/NJ
That is such a beautiful flag!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7QfLCbTUrw&feature=related
Merry Christmas from MJ down in Dixieland.
Hmmm. You seem to be confusing Lincoln with the two Presidents the "states rights" south loved the most, Woodrow Wilson and FDR. Their socialist agenda won over 80% of the votes down there. Obviously "consolidating Federal power" was much more popular in the former confederacy than in the northern states. In the northern states, there was at least real opposition to FDR and Wilson's socialist agenda. In the former confederacy, the best they had was other Democrats like Huey Long actually arguing that the statism didn't go far enough.
>> Let’s clarify things. You place the 11 seceding states of the Confederacy on the same moral plane as the Palestinians? Do I have that correct? Just checking. <<
Possibly worse.
The position of the Palestinian terroritories basically seems to be than the Jews have absolutely no right to live in the middle east and they should be driven to the sea or violently attacked for daring to live there. Hamas is really the ones openly admitted that though, Fatah hates the Jews too but is more coy about it.
The position of the Confederate States was that blacks were sub-human animals and that slavery was not only an eternal and inherit "right", but that it was the "natural condition" for blacks. Everyone from the Vice President of the CSA to the state declarations of secessions declared that this was indeed their goal and position. In speaks volumes that the "Confederate Constitution" says nothing different than than the U.S. Constitution about tariffs, states rights, or secession, but specifically declares that slavery cannot ever abolished. Not even the Palestinian territories are bold enough to write up a Constitution declaring Jews to be sub-human and their personal property.
You can read Three Months in the Southern States online at this link... or print it for anyone that doesn’t want to order the book. It’s well worth the read.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20928/20928-h/20928-h.htm
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
by: Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President Source:
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)
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