Posted on 08/13/2012 8:24:25 AM PDT by Rufus2007
On a special broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball” on Saturday, weekend morning host Melissa Harris-Perry expressed her displeasure with the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney’s running mate.
In particular, Harris-Perry took issue with Ryan quoting Thomas Jefferson’s line in the Declaration of Independence, in which he declared rights come from God and nature and not from government.
“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” she said. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”
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Does she think it’s ugly for a poor Black man to believe he has God-given rights?
I guarantee that if Allen West (my preference) would have been chosen, she would have not been happy.
I guess her head would explode if she were to learn that initially the inalienable right to "pursuit of happiness" was to be specified as "property".
I was at DummyUnderground a few days ago, and someone cited a quote from Romney that your rights are inalienable and come from God or nature. As in natural. Those words from Romney were met with scorn and derision by many Dummies until a few less stupid Dummies pointed out the fact that Romney was 100% correct. The rest of the morons had nothing to say after that.
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If he quoted Booker T. Washington they’d accuse him of acting patronizing.
Born with Big Gub'mint's teat clamped firmly in her mouth.
Still sucking.
Libtards think it is permissible to violate the right to the pursuit of happiness of the rich in order to promote the pursuit of happiness of ordinary people and the poor.
Racist whore.
Another mixed-race leftist trying to be “authentic”.(She wears corn rows) She spouts hatred for Whitey all the time. It may be a personal thing with her, maybe her white Daddy split.
At any rate, hatred for the founding fathers and America in general is SOP at MSNBC.
If Jefferson was so awful, why do Democrats have am annual Jefferson Day dinner event?
If you watch the movie Uncle Buck, you'll see that Marcie's frost goes to the bone. She just ain't the marrying kind.
Another pseudo-intellectual, cornrowed, hyphenated (OH, double hyphenated! Name and ethnicity! Bonus points) VICTIM.
If she was smart, instead of yet another hyphenated-American “victim”, she would have known that in the vernacular of the day, “pursuit” referred to a vocation, a job in other words.
Most people misuse the phrase these days and don’t seem to remember that the reason for the emphasis on ‘pursuit of happiness’ was because until that time, if you were born to a blacksmith, you were going to become a blacksmith, and if you were born a land-owners son, you would someday be a Baron, while a blacksmith’s son would never have that chance.
Upward mobility, the opportunity to improve your position ... that was the ‘pursuit of happiness’ ... an opportunity she clearly has and takes for granted, and yet despises because at the core she is a racist bitch incapable of thinking outside her victim programming.
“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” she said. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. (Emphasis added.)Somehow, it seems that the lovely lady does not know what the verb "extricate" means. Here's a commonly accepted definition: "to free or release from entanglement; disengage: to extricate someone from a dangerous situation." That's what we hope to do -- to free or release from an increasingly dangerous situation the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. The Democrats, on the other hand, are doing their best to extirpate that capacity, i.e. " to remove or destroy [it] completely."
That's one of the principal issues in this campaign.
Oh well.
Just another angry black woman with a hyphenated last name.
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