Posted on 07/14/2019 9:17:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says he was recently given documents showing that both he and his wife are descended from people who owned slaves.
In a post Sunday night for the website Medium, the former Texas congressman writes that the documents showed that one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s.
He says records also showed that one ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army. …
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Chances are we ALL have ancestors who were slaveowners and/or enslaved. Why bother with reparations, we’ll all break even. Another Dem scam, more symbolism over substance.
So, he met his Wife on the Online Site Slaveowningdemocrats.com?
Me two. Look at me
Wait, I thought Beto was a fake Mexican. Now he’s a descendent of Slave Owners? LOL
...one of his paternal great-great-great grandfathers owned two women in the 1850s. He says records also showed that one ancestor of his wife, Amy, owned slaves while another was part of the Confederate Army.
Get off his back, he's just trying to connect with the rank-and-file Demwit voters.
As HRC said WTF difference does it make?
Irish Bob the fool.
Marx and Che spouting Communists pretending to be Democrats
This is serious - he has slave-owner genes.
He should immediately withdraw (not that anybody would notice) and start reparations.
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. …Communists/socialists are the biggest proponents of democracy, i.e. mob rule. A so-called “democratic constitution” is always in flux and can always be bent to the will of a central dictator.
— Friedrich Engels, “The Principles of Communism”
… [I]t is quite clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost—if not quite—one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. …
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
Was it then a Democracy the framers created? Hardly. The system of restraints, on the face of it, was directed not only against individual tyrants, but also against a tyranny of the masses. The framers were well aware of the danger posed by self-seeking demagogues—that they might persuade a majority of the people to confer on government vast powers in return for deceptive promises of economic gain. And so they forbade such a transfer of power—first by declaring, in effect, that certain activities are outside the natural and legitimate scope of the public authority, and secondly by dispersing public authority among several levels and branches of government in the hope that each seat of authority, jealous of its own prerogatives, would have a natural incentive to resist aggression by the others. …And the self-seeking demagogues are just too numerous to mention today.
— The Conscience of a Conservative, Chapter 2, “The Perils of Power”
Don’t forget the black guy pretending to be an ancient roman gladiator.
Thank God this moron will never be president.
Opposition research now goes back pre-1865?
And here you thought “so-and-so politician did this in elementary school” was pathetic.
My ancestors were serfs in Eastern Europe.
My guess is someone had the docs and was gonna leak em. Beto just trying to beat em to the punch.
Beto may have been politically neutered nationally, but his Texan supporters stand firmly behind him!
And yet Barack Obama claimed he was a wittle bitty baby (aged 10.75 years) when his political mentor William “Billy” Ayers bombed the Pentagon (so cut Barry a break, he didn’t know about it)...
He’s not just a fake Hispanic, he’s also a fake Black.
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