Posted on 07/23/2013 8:18:43 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Rush Limbaugh would have sided with the confederacy during the Civil War, according to MSNBC analyst Dorian Warren.
Warren, a Columbia professor and fellow at the progressive Roosevelt Institute, explained that Limbaugh “represents the Confederacy. He would have been on that side that went to war around the question of slavery.”
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You missed my point entirely
Slavery was the issue, yes, but because the Fed was trying to force the states to eliminate it, and it was not up to the federal government to decide that - it was a state issue.
Not that Slavery was good, and should have been ‘allowed’, but it was not a federal issue.
Imagine if the issue was about the Federal govt forcing the states to buy health care. do you see what I mean now?
It WAS about states rights. Slavery was just a vehicle to assert federal power over states rights.
msnbc represents pol pot, joseph stalin, marx and engels and satan.
LLS
Just like today, if a state tried to “opt out” of the left’s socialism,
they’d demand that the fedgov FORCE them to participate.
Leftists can’t stand the idea of someone doing something they don’t approve of.
Not quite right. Lincoln himself, from day one and for years before he was elected, proclaimed that he had no power and no intention to interfere with slavery inside a state.
So he didn't offer to allow them to keep slavery. They already had that.
What he offered was that he would not oppose an amendment presently making its way through Congress that would irrevocably prohibit Congress from interfering with slavery in any state. IOW, no future amendment could change this.
This offer was rejected by southern leaders.
The slave owners were Democrats.
Then what was it about BEFORE slaverybecame the issue?
Did the war start over some other issue?
(serious question)
[Like forcing them to buy health care maybe?]
As my Late Mother used to say, “Some people are so smart, they’re stupid”.
Just another Marxist Mulatto with a victim attitude, nothing to see here.
Please provide evidence for this. There was no attempt by the Federal government to force, or even influence, slave states to abolish slavery prior to the 1860 election.
The issue in that election was entirely one of whether:
A. Slavery would be prohibited in the territories (Lincoln).
B. Slavery would be allowed to expand into the territories, with a federal slave code enforced to protect it (Bell and Breckenridge).
C. To allow slavery or not in a territory would be left up to the people of that territory (Douglas).
Abolishing slavery in states wasn't even discussed.
Dorian Warren would have been on the side of Stalin and Mao.
The left represents Lunacy.
You are confusing me - first you said slavery was the ONLY issue in the civil war, now you are saying it was not an issue at all
Please tell me what started the civil war, then... because I am confused now
Slavery was just one bullet point in the federal government’s list of acts against the states as was the Morrill Tariff. This and other taxes/tariffs that the northern states were trying to impose were strictly meant to hamstring the south and keep them behind the industrial north via protectionism. The north feared growth in the south and the availability of cheap labor either by slaves or the poor citizenry and acted to stifle growth in the south.
On the same level as “Rush is a big fat poopie butt”.
Considering Cape Girardeau was in a heavily seccess part of the state, he probably would have. But what the hell does that have to do with anything in the 21st century?
What was it the federal government was telling the Southern states they could not do?
“He would have been on that side that went to war around the question of slavery.”
Says a supporter of Obamacare, which takes posession of all of our physical beings. I can’t come up with a better comparison to our historical slavery than to have the ruling class actually own my physical body.....
Hey, morons, how does it feel to have slavery re-instated by the first black president.
And Dorian Warren would have sided with the Crown during the revolution.
You know the left is losing when they play the race card.
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