Posted on 12/28/2023 7:53:13 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President Biden took a swipe at Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley for failing to mention slavery while responding to a question about the cause of the Civil War.
Reposting a video of Haley’s response during a town hall in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Biden offered a response on X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter: “It was about slavery.”
The video captured the exchange between Haley, the former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador, and a New Hampshire voter who asked the White House hopeful about the cause of the Civil War.
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I think he was born right after it.
Did he call her a lying dog-faced pony soldier?
Was Sununu beaming with pride?
Does diaper head know that the talking point du jour is to boost Haley, not criticize her?
Does diaper head know that the talking point du jour is to boost Haley, not criticize her?
Democrats gotta play the race card.
Biden offered a response on X
Dementia Joe doesn't even know someone tweeted on his behalf.
“”You don’t know my state. … My state was a slave state. My state is a border state. My state has the eighth-largest black population in the country. My state is anything from a Northeast liberal state.”
Hypothetically, if this country were to once again fall into civil war let’s say between normal states and federal government/democrat states, what would would you argue is the cause?
tyranny
Yeah, right. Biden isn’t hitting anyone...well, perhaps he tries to hit his care takers.
“ Dementia Joe doesn’t even know someone tweeted on his behalf.”
Bingo. The resident is Non compos mentis
OK Joe - whatever — take your pick.
It was about federal vs states rights, overreach of the federal government, southern democrats demand to continue slavery, economics, all of the above.
I have no love (or even "like") for Haley, but WHO believes that a guy that doesn't have two workable brain cells, is a mental midget and who is currently on a foreign beach drinking pina coladas even knows Civil War history?
Slavery is the simplistic answer. But we have to remember that loyalty to states, and states’ rights, was greater than loyalty to the nation in our early history. The US tried a confederate form of government before our Constitution was ratified. There was a legitimate legal issue as to the right of states to secede, at least until the South fired on Ft. Sumter.
Correctomundo...same thing as 1861...not slavery.
Why is so hard for Republicans to call a spade a spade? [Pun intended.] Yes, the whole country, Northern states included, was implicated in the institution, but it was the South that made it a sacred cause worth fighting and dying for.
The secessionists were very direct in their language: the only states’ right they were championing was the right for humans to own other humans.
An excerpt from Alexander Stephens on Slavery and the Confederate Constitution, 1861
Confederates had to quickly create not only a government, but also a nation, including all of the cultural values required to foster patriotism. In this speech Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, proclaims that slavery and white supremacy were not only the cause for secession, but also the “cornerstone” of the Confederate nation.
“The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The Constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it-when the ‘storm came and the wind blew, it fell.’
“Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition. [Applause.] This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”
It’s a good question. And I would agree with Jonny7797 that Tyranny is a fine answer. The problem today is a central government with too much over-reach seeking to control things that should be left to states and to individuals.
But if the future civil war is won by the Left, you know that the future history books will blame the future civil war on the racism of Donald Trump and his supporters. It will be all about race, and the desire of early 21st century white Christians to bring back slavery. Historical documents (CNN, MSNBC, NYT, etc.) will verify that it was all about race hatred.
The winners write the history.
And the history books tells us that the First American Civil War from 1861-1865 was all about slavery.
But maybe — just maybe — it had a little bit to do with a central government and it’s urge toward tyranny.
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