Posted on 12/28/2023 9:00:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a “Democrat plant” for a question about what caused the Civil War. The presidential candidate neglected to include “slavery” in her list of reasons.
During a town hall on Wednesday, a member of the audience asked the former South Carolina governor what caused the Civil War. She gave an unclear word-salad response.
“I mean, I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run. The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” she said.
“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” Haley continued. “I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people,” she said.
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“It doesn’t matter if someone is a plant or not, you can either answer the question or you can’t.”
That’s true. I recall that when Sarah Palin was being interviewed very easily on during that campaign. A lib reporter asked her if she believed in “American Exceptionalism”. She took too much time to reply. And when she did reply, it was weak and not really an answer.
I’m one of her biggest fans, and have been since the beginning, but I thought she should’ve not skipped one second before declaring, “Yes!”
Of course, the reporter was trying to set her up. Any answer, yes or no, would have led to a follow-up to make her look bad. But still you have to be prepared to give a strong response.
Yup. It would have been more useful had it not tried to do so much, instead just focusing on one thing. It is a very wordy amendment, and not easily discernible strictly from the verbiage.
It has given us the "incorporation doctrine" which forces rules binding the Federal government onto the states, many misapplied, like bans on Religion expression by a state government. In 1787, there were still some state governments that had officially sanctioned state religions.
The 14th amendment is a mess, and it is responsible for a lot of the idiocy we deal with nowadays.
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