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Darkest moments in US History

Posted on 11/12/2012 6:33:35 PM PST by MNDude

In your opinion, what are the five darkest times in US history (excluding this election since that would be too obvious)


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1 posted on 11/12/2012 6:33:40 PM PST by MNDude
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Roe V wade. Eminent domain. Obama. Obama, again. And the idiots that elected him twice.


2 posted on 11/12/2012 6:39:11 PM PST by deadrock
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Anything put on the internet in any shape or form can be read by anyone with just a little knowledge. And is there FOREVER.

The irony - old fashion just talking or sending a letter through snail mail may be the most secure.


3 posted on 11/12/2012 6:39:48 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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War of 1812— having the White House sacked and burned by the British was a real bummer.

South seceding from the Union.

Lincoln assasination.
Garfield assasination.

FDR inaugurated to an unprecedented 3rd term.


4 posted on 11/12/2012 6:39:56 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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oops - sorry - wrong thread


5 posted on 11/12/2012 6:40:44 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: MNDude

The sixties. Roe v Wade. The Civil War. FDR. Justice Roberts and Obamacare.


6 posted on 11/12/2012 6:43:11 PM PST by Third Person (I'm in my prime.)
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FDR 3rd election

Death of FDR (he deserved to see the end of the war)

election of Carter

election of Clinton twice


7 posted on 11/12/2012 6:45:29 PM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: MNDude

OK, I’ll play.

1. The Louisiana Purchase. If that hadn’t happened, America would’ve remained 13 colonies (maybe 14, with Florida). No genocide of native Americans. No conflict over whether slavery can/cannot expand to new territories.

2. The Mexican War. Pretty much for the same reasons as #1.

3. The Civil War. Obvious.

4. The Spanish American War. The beginning of America as an “imperial” power.

5. 1952 Republican Presidential nomination. Robert Taft was America’s last real chance to return to “normalcy”. We blew it.

Bonus: the 1960 presidential election. We elected Kennedy ‘cause he was good looking and charming, proving the old America was gone for good.

Seriously, nothing since then has mattered - it’s all been more of the same.


8 posted on 11/12/2012 6:50:36 PM PST by I Shall Endure
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1) Election/reelection of Obama, 2) Roe v Wade, 3) FDR, 4) Justice Roberts, and 5) Obamacare.

None of the above had happy endings:
1. Total disregard, not once, but twice for our Constitution’s requirments to be elegible to be president. Hence, a muslim foreigner and anti-American, anti-Semetic socialist turns our country into a lawless quagmire.

2. Death of well over 50,000,000 unborn and newly born American children, and paid for with taxes to boot.

3. Beginning of the handout generation and attacks on big business.

4. Totally ignoring common sense and virtually destroying a significant part of our economy with asshatted stupidity of calling a travesty a tax.

5. (fill in the blank)


9 posted on 11/12/2012 6:51:07 PM PST by laweeks
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Trail of Tears, going to war against the south, the income tax, Roosevelt declaring as president for life, JFK, and then the results that followed JFK, Vietnam, unionizing government, roe v wade.

The poison pill that destroyed us was the 1965 Immigration Act, which was enabled by 1800s immigration.


10 posted on 11/12/2012 6:51:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Todd Akin was NOT the tea party candidate, Sarah Steelman was, Brunner had tea party support also.)
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To: MNDude

Roseanne Barr’s National Anthem.


11 posted on 11/12/2012 6:51:45 PM PST by waredbird
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Valley Forge
Fredricksburg
Influenza epidemic
Pearl Harbor
Vietnam


12 posted on 11/12/2012 6:54:24 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: MNDude

October 3, 1965 the Immigration and Nationality Act was signed into law.


13 posted on 11/12/2012 6:55:21 PM PST by skeeter
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1. Winter at Valley Forge

2. The Firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War

3. The Winter of 1933-1934 - Unemployment hits 24.9%

4. The Fall of Corregidor - May, 1942 was dark, indeed

5. The enactment of The Great Society legislation in the mid-1960s which ushered in the welfare state

And, for good measure, 6. The Defeat in Vietnam, from which we have yet to recover

14 posted on 11/12/2012 6:55:59 PM PST by TonyInOhio
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To: MNDude

March 4, 1913 the first inauguration of Woodrow Wilson.


15 posted on 11/12/2012 6:59:14 PM PST by skeeter
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November 22, 1963 assassination of JFK.

Not because one man died, but because of the political fallout.

16 posted on 11/12/2012 7:00:42 PM PST by skeeter
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To: MNDude

Valley Forge
Lincoln’s assasination
Pearl Harbor
9/11 attacks
2012 presidential election outcome


17 posted on 11/12/2012 7:00:59 PM PST by Nifster
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To: I Shall Endure
There were already 16 states as of 1796, and Ohio became the 17th as of March 1, 1803, before the Louisiana Purchase was finalized. Seven more states were formed from territories which already belonged to the US (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alabama, Mississippi, Maine), plus West Virginia was later carved out of Virginia, but that wouldn't have happened except for the Civil War. So without the Louisiana Purchase we might have 24 states, or 25 if we had acquired Florida.

It's hard to imagine the land beyond the Mississippi River remaining sparsely settled--Americans would have gone there whoever was in control. If Spain had not sold the area back to France, it's doubtful they could have held on to it once it started to fill up with American settlers. So we probably would have expanded west of the Mississippi, but perhaps in a more violent fashion.

Robert Taft died in 1953...so if he had been nominated and won, what would have mattered was who he picked for VP.

18 posted on 11/12/2012 7:06:45 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: married21
Bill O'Reilly has now written books on the assassination of Lincoln and the assassination of Kennedy.

I'm waiting for him to announce what is the next book in the series: Garfield or McKinley.

19 posted on 11/12/2012 7:09:28 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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The burning of Washington in 1814 destroyed the earliest census records for some states—a blow to many people doing genealogical research. The burning of Richmond in 1865 caused a greater loss, but confined to people with ancestors in Virginia.


20 posted on 11/12/2012 7:12:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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