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Here's What's So Jarring About Hillary Clinton's Thoughts On Reconstruction
The Huffington Post Huffpost Politics ^ | January 27, 2016 | Ryan Grim

Posted on 01/28/2016 12:45:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

And why she should listen to Killer Mike.

At the the Iowa Democratic forum on Monday night, Hillary Clinton took one of the easiest questions lobbed her way -- Who is your favorite president? -- and blasted it right into the back of her own goal.

She did fine with the first part, naming Abraham Lincoln, but then dipped into the history of Reconstruction, bemoaning the vengeful way in which the North targeted the South after Lincoln's assassination.

You know, he was willing to reconcile and forgive. And I don't know what our country might have been like had he not been murdered, but I bet that it might have been a little less rancorous, a little more forgiving and tolerant, that might possibly have brought people back together more quickly.

But instead, you know, we had Reconstruction, we had the re-instigation of segregation and Jim Crow. We had people in the South feeling totally discouraged and defiant. So, I really do believe he could have very well put us on a different path....

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; Politics
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She's going to hear about that!
1 posted on 01/28/2016 12:45:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And I wonder if anyone will bring up the fact that Andrew Johnson was a Democrat and all of the killings and KKK and violence against freedman after the Civil War was by Democrats?

Any takers?


2 posted on 01/28/2016 1:07:44 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smoke, mirrors: no one knows who she is....or she’s anything they want her to be.


3 posted on 01/28/2016 1:24:02 AM PST by dasboot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh dear, soon we will be hearing from “experts” on US civil war history. Let’s just read Gone with the Wind instead.


4 posted on 01/28/2016 1:31:45 AM PST by opus1 (i'm new... hi)
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To: wbarmy

Wonder if anyone will bring up the gun control laws of the era, intended to leave freedmen defenseless.


5 posted on 01/28/2016 3:01:11 AM PST by FreedomForce ( Cruz 2016 --------- I've come to my senses. Trump is no longer even my second choice.)
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Carpet.
Bagger.

Mr. niteowl77

6 posted on 01/28/2016 4:10:06 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When Hitlary ran for senate, she was called a carpetbagger.


7 posted on 01/28/2016 5:41:32 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
But instead, you know, we had Reconstruction, we had the re-instigation of segregation and Jim Crow. We had people in the South feeling totally discouraged and defiant.

Proves she still has a few brain cells left. Nut, blind pig meet.

8 posted on 01/28/2016 5:46:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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9 posted on 01/28/2016 6:41:51 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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