Posted on 09/15/2015 8:22:13 AM PDT by rktman
Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of credit for supposedly stepping into the lions den at Liberty University. In fact, the students at that evangelical university founded by Jerry Falwell are far more polite and well-behaved than their counterparts at most other campuses. There was zero danger of disruption, but the media swells who gushed over his courage do not know much about Liberty and its standards of conduct. As I type this, Mike Barnicle on Morning Joe is calling the speech Incredible just incredible. Mika Brzezinski (of course) echoed him. Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winner of the WaPo, called it powerful. (For some reason, everyone is calling it Liberty College when, in fact, it is well-known as Liberty University. Is this a way of demoting it?)
So Bernie took advantage of his audiences politeness and served up a bunch of sound bites intended for television viewers and his base (and for media lefties).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
George Washington fought and won the Revolutionary War, shocked his European skeptics when he relinquished power afterward, presided over the composition of the Constitution, was elected POTUS by acclamation, and set the precedents for subsequent presidents including not serving more than two terms,and did not violate either the laws or traditions of his country or his religion by owning slaves.It sounds terrible that he owned slaves, but there were no published defenses of slavery because the institution of slavery was universal in space and time, up to Washington's lifetime. That was true of paganism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, you name it - and it was even true of Christianity. Shocking as it sounds, Christianity did not turn against the institution of slavery until then. And the Civil War was the result of the fact that southern Christians were the last ones to get the word. And they had a tiger by the tail, and knew it.
All very well for Bernie Sanders to critique the fact that Washington was not ahead of his time on every significant issue. But all Bernie Sanders has done is serve in the House and Senate under the Constitution made by Washington, not break the laws against owning slaves which were established by the government established under Washingtons Constitution after Washingtons lifetime. That gives Bernie Sanders no warrant to claim moral, or any other, superiority over George Washington.But arrogance is a defining characteristic of socialists such as he.
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