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.
“”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.”
Yeah, right. Biden isn’t hitting anyone...well, perhaps he tries to hit his care takers.
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.
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 was about Democrats refusing to accept the results of the election of 1860.
No Joe it wasnt
For the South it was about states rights...
For the North it was about preserving the Union...
Oh jeez. Here comes the Lost Causers again.
Joseph Stolen is an idiot
“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.”
She gets some things right. Maybe she actually read serious, objective history while governor of South Carolina.
Proof that Haley is advancing - the Dems and MSM invent irrelevant BS stories to attack her.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident.” All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”