Posted on 04/06/2015 11:47:50 AM PDT by C19fan
In a speech one month ago, the first black president of the United States challenged millions of white Americans to resist the convenient allure of overlooking the country’s blemished moral record. It was a dual challenge, actually—first to the classical understanding of American exceptionalism, but also to America’s persistent critics, who abjure the concept of exceptionalism altogether.
“What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this?” President Barack Obama said. “What greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self-critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?”
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Thanks—I had forgotten about Fort Polk (named in honor of Leonidas Polk, not his second cousin President Polk).
Did they lose? They’ve got one of their own in the White House.
So sorry! I must be tired to have misread your post.
“Do you really think the democrats have lost their slaves?”
Different sort of slavery now.
These Forts and Posts are named after American soldiers.
Americans fought for CSA and USA. I have no trouble with honoring brave men.
This is a great idea!
We can call the holiday Unification Day.
Just like on Firefly.
Do you think the air force missing nuke ( last year) that was destined for South Carolina was supposed to send a message? South Carolina led the secession parade and has taken a beating by the federal government ever since.
Indentured servitude and debtors prisons and bound apprenticeships are all ideas whose time came and went but may be back again. The left has no qualms about economic enslavement. 93 million unemployed people could be put to work to boost the economy. They will fix the deficit, balance the budget and send moslems to the moon in exchange for their ebt cards, abamacare, free birth control and obama-phones.
Illiterate.
Hello Miss Marmelstein, how have you been? My ancestors fought in The Army Of The Potomac.
When writer critic Lee Siegel was disgraced for attacking his own critics under fake identities on the Internet, he tried to stage a comeback with "Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!"
Running down half the country (whichever half) is just a cheap and easy way to attract attention to oneself online.
There never was a surrender; it is only a prolonged time out. It was INTENDED to be a surrender until the Yankees decied to make a vendetta out of it.
Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan were treated better than the Confederate States were.
Regardless of whether they were right or wrong, no purpose can be served by this scab-picking except the aggravation of bitter feelings that have not died even today.
Far from unifying, this is the ultimate in divisiveness.
You nailed it.
Traitor. Think Beau Berdhal times a few million.
As are Fort Gordon, Fort A.P.Hill, Fort Lee.
By agreement reached in the 1880s, Forts in the old Confederacy were to be named only after Confederate Officers.
That’s interesting. Do you have more info on the specifics?
Maybe they weren't sore losers?
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