Sen. Biden: 'My State Was A Slave State'...

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[Cheburashka]

I'm a middle-aged woman who curses at people who pull in front of me in traffic without signalling.
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You have to get back to your roots.

One of these will clear a lane in no time.

Use one of these to signal that you have the right of way

[PAR35]

President Lincoln emancipated the slaves back in 1863.

No, he didn't.

The emancipation proclamation didn't apply to areas under Union control, including the Union slave states.

[Christopher Lincoln]

Non-rebelling (Union) slave states still had slaves till the 13th Amendment was ratified, Dec 6, 1865.

Not all of them. Maryland, West Virginia, and Missouri abolished slavery of their own accord. So did Tennessee, which was excluded from the Emancipation Proclamation. But Delaware, which was the most pro-union of the slave states, clung to slavery until the 13th Amendment went into effect.

[rod1]

Why stop there. Biden can go after the Plagerist vote as well.

[Larry Lucido]

So, who was he quoting when he said it?

[DCWonk]

Scott Ritter's testimony (excerpts below), Sept 3, to the Senate Armed Services
and Foreign Relations Committees

Sens. Biden (with a compensation fixation) and Kerry (before he was 'turned' by our enemies)
among others question Ritter....

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/1998/980907-in.htm

Ritter then explained the confrontation over access to so-called
presidential sites, saying that the inspection of presidential sites had
been a "farce from the beginning." He said that UNSCOM had not sought
to enter presidential sites, but Iraq had succeeded in defining access
to presidential sites as the issue. When Iraq announced that it was
denying UNSCOM access to so-called presidential sites, the US/UNSC
embraced that point as the defining issue.

Biden suggested that the question of taking the nation to war was a
responsibility "slightly beyond your pay grade. That's why they [who
make such decisions] get paid big bucks. That's why they get their
limos and you don't." Biden advised that Albright had more to consider
than "whether old Scotty-boy didn't get in" to a suspected weapons site.

Sen John Kerry [D Ma] said that Saddam's aim was not to lift the
sanctions, but to build weapons of mass destruction. He said that he
disagreed with Sen. Biden. The issue was much bigger than whether Scott
Ritter or his team could get into a site or not. Kerry said that the US
should be prepared to use force to achieve its goals, although it would
be ill-advised to do so without mobilizing public support. But sliding
into a policy of containment was disastrous. He suggested that any US
military strike on Iraq should involve sustained targeting of the
regime.

[Young Werther]

Well maybe he's been scratching his head too much. Maybee that's the reason for his hair plugs!!!

[rmgatto]

Say hello to our friend macaca biden, or whatever his name is. What a maroon!

[Bubba_Leroy]

The only Democrats who have been elected President in the last 40+ years came from Georgia and Arkansas...Southern States.

Correctamundo!

Now the bonus point round.

Bush won in 2004 with 51% of the popular vote. Name the last three Hezbocrat ... I mean Democrat Presidents to win with more that 51% of the popular vote.

[NeoCaveman]

And now you can't walk into a 7-11 here without having a slight Indian accent - Joe Biden

[righthand man]

"The Great Proclamation" (1960), Commager, Henry Steele; "Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation" (1964), Donovan, Frank; "The Emancipation Proclamation" (1964), Franklin, John Hope, ed. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free... Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued." NOTE - Slavery was NOT abolished in one Confederate (Tennessee) and four Union states (Maryland, Delaware. Kentucky, West Virginia, and Missouri).

http://37thtexas.org/html/Emancipator.html

[NeoCaveman]

Name the last three Hezbocrat ... I mean Democrat Presidents to win with more that 51% of the popular vote.

Clinton - no, Carter - no. Kennedy didn't quite make it either.

So that would leave LBJ and FDR and what Wilson's second run?

[righthand man]

DIXIE PING

[Huck]

LBJ, FDR, and....Andy Jackson???

[AmishDude]

Allen's "Macaca" remark is no worse than Donna Brazile's "White boys" comment

His "macaca" remark was nothing. It was absolutely nothing. It just shows how hard the Dems have to work to be offended.

[Non-Sequitur]

So Lincoln only freed the slaves in the Confederacy, which he did not control and not the slaves in the Union, which he did control.

Only because he was murdered before the 13th Amendment was ratified. Lincoln supported the amendment, lobbied for it in the House and Senate, had it added to the 1864 Republican platform, and in one of his last speeches recounted how proud he was that his home state of Illinois was the first state to ratify it. If Lincoln didn't free all the slaves himself, it wouldn't have been done when it was without him.

[Verginius Rufus]

Wilson's percentages of the popular vote in 1912 and 1916 were almost the same as Clinton's in 1992 and 1996. In other words, Wilson never made it to 50%, let alone 51%. The last Democrat before FDR to reach 51% was Samuel Tilden, who lost the disputed election of 1876. (If not for vote suppression in the South and ballot-stuffing elsewhere, Tilden's percentage might have been lower.)

The last Democrat before FDR to get 51% of the popular vote and actually win the election was Franklin Pierce in 1852. The last Democrat before LBJ to get 51% of the popular vote and actually win the election without having the first name Franklin was Martin Van Buren in 1837.

[Pharmboy]

As Mark Levin says about Biden: "The dumbest guy in the Senate." Too true.

And BTW: NY was a slave state too until 1827.

[pointsal]

Did Joe Biden copy this sentence from someone else.... like David Duke?

[groanup]

check this out.