TELL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THAT HE IS FULL OF IT!
Posted on 07/10/2009 10:14:34 AM PDT by AJKauf
As a disemboweled GOP struggles to marshal an effective opposition to President Barack Obama, it can at least take heart in a singular fact: Obama’s historic election as the first African American president, and even the possibility of such a candidacy, are direct legacies of the Republican Party.
The GOP originated in the mid-19th century as a barely choate coalition of former Whigs, evangelical Christians, and New England intellectuals who had little in common save a loathing of slavery and a devotion to its demise — either by restricting its growth into the territories (the course favored by moderate Republicans) or by outright abolition (favored by the so-called radicals).
President Abraham Lincoln, initially a moderate and one of the party’s principal organizers in the West, nonetheless used the war power of the government to effect the dream of the radicals, smashing the Southern plantation class before pushing the 13th Amendment through Congress.
Ending slavery on this continent forever.
The second Republican president...
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And 54 or 57% of Americans finding him a swell guy and voted for him...Unbelievable.
That’s changing. Many, many people, including some who identify themselves as conservative (which is the largest demographic political group in America) were bamboozled by his rock star blitz. Now they are starting to feel the impact of his marxist policies.
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