The only reason a lowly WH aide would make a comment like that is because that is the talk within the whitehouse and the administration.
The movie “Idiocracy” is starting to look more and more like a documentary, rather than a comedy
Sooner or later, even Dems have to get tired of the same lines coming from Dems.
I have to wonder if Dems will EVER catch up to the 21st century and stop living in the 19th??
Obama couldn’t shine Lincoln’s shoes.*
*EXACTLY WHAT I MEANT TO SAY!!!!!
There is slavery at the hands of the democrats.
I call BS.
It is no surprise that the party of slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan now advocates the tyranny of concentrated government power at every opportunity. The only real problem that Democrats have with American chattel slavery is that the slaves are privately owned.
So remind me again, Chuck, what party was Lincoln, and what party was Jefferson Davis?
“Close Aide”???? Want to bet it is Valerie?
The pea brain doesn’t know history. What’s new?
Did this discussion take place in the local DC bath house?
He's right. The democrats were the party of slavery. If the GOP of the 1860's constantly caved in to the rats the way they do today the democrats would have gotten their way and we'd still have slavery.
He’s not taking the response to this on Twitter very well:
@chucktodd Good ole Twitter, folks doing their usual, if you REPORT something, then you must believe it too. Whatever...
I was just looking at some northern newspapers from 1860, including one from New Haven CT. The articles were talking about how the democrats of the day were fighting against the dissolution of slavery, and how Lincoln was ignoring the economic impact on cities of the North, like New Haven, that would lose revenue as their ports would not be bringing in cotton and other things from the South. The New Haven newspaper, in particular, was slamming Lincoln in favor of the democrat position of the day.
How we ever went from that to the democrats being recognized as the party representing blacks in America is unbelievable. Propaganda is a powerful tool.
Today would be no different, except that there aren't that many principled republicans who hold freedom and liberty among their values worth fighting for.
They are quite willing to sell us out and into indentured servitude to them. Todd stumbled into a right answer.
The NBC reporter is an idiot. Lincoln was not able to broker a deal on slavery. When negotiations broke down, the south receded and we fought the Civil War.
My grandfather’s grandfather was a founding member of the New York Anti-slavery Republicans and a member of Seward’s Pets, unit of the US Army and recruiter. He was also the District Attorney in Cayuga County, who is credited with ending the practice of water torture at Sing Sing prison following the death of a Black prisoner who died of hypothermia while being punished for some minor offense.
And with today’s Democratic party we would either be digging potatoes on a frozen collective for sustenance under the banner of Lenin or squatting on our haunches to relieve ourselves INTO our source of water outside a hut in Somalia.
There’s a certain unintended truth in that remark.
The Democrats are, and always have been, the party of slavery. And the today’s GOP Establishment is only too happy to cooperate with the Democrats, for a share of the loot.