Posted on 06/22/2014 3:45:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At the end of the Civil War, but before the pernicious reach of Jim Crow undermined the Union Army’s battlefield victory, former slaves and free blacks found themselves in possession of a most precious right -- the right to vote.
It didn’t matter if a man had been a war hero in the famed, all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment or a house servant on a Southern plantation. All that mattered was that he was a man.
To say that this development didn’t sit well with the progressive-minded women of this country is an understatement. Before the war, the abolitionist movement and the suffragist movement had been fused at the hip -- or so women believed. They weren’t allied causes so much as they were the same cause, demanded in the same lecture halls by the same people in the same speeches.
After four years of burying their husbands, fathers, and sons -- the Union men who’d donned their country’s blue uniforms and sang John Brown’s Hymn as they marched to the killing fields -- American women thought they had earned some consideration. They thought they had earned the right to be heard, the right to vote, and the right to hold political office.
When this assumption was proven wrong -- when Frederick Douglass, of all people -- figuratively patted them on their heads and said in essence, “Not now, little lady, not yet. Your time will come,” they couldn’t have felt more disillusioned.
Betrayal by the men who had made “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” the unofficial national song -- its lyrics written by a woman -- had lasting repercussions in the nation’s collective female consciousness. One of them was the idea that war is rarely the answer....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I have no idea what the point of this article is, but if Hillary wins the election, it will be due,to VOTER FRAUD.
Since Obama had similar articles,predicting his second term win, despite low approval number, with bizarre convoluted explanations, this makes me nervous.
It's like these people wake up to a tabula rasa each day, a pure clear future with no past to cast a shadow.
Like my kids ... each day, flushing the toilet is a whole new concept, never before experienced ...
But even if she doesn't get the nomination, that doesn't mean we're out of the woods. How many here were relieved when Obama got the nomination, and then selected Biden. We saw how that worked out.
Conservative women are treated like crap. Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and others.
MRC: Conservative women treated badly by media
Daily Caller – No surprise — The Media Research Center found that conservative women are treated unfairly by the media.
She wont even run.
It is taking him a long time to provide more information.
I think he realizes how big this could be, and he’s running it by various people to determine if he’s legally exposed.
Either that or he’s stuck on the World Cup.
:D
Just checked back to the Drudgereport one last time, still no article linked yet...
I believe she will run.
What I’m not certain of, is whether she will challenge the GOP from the Republican party, or the Tea Party.
Palin? I love her and would support her, but I don't see it happening.
Thank you for those positive images of hope for 2016.
:^)
Like Mark Levin says: “Hillary becoming our next President would be like nuking the Titanic while it’s sinking.”
LOL! Absolutely. Double whammy times a billion. And the freakin’ RINO party is doing their utmost to see it happens.
I don’t count any level of stupidity out when it comes to the blithering fools who support Hillary and the sheer power of the machine behind her. I suppose she is a tad less corrupt than the current admin,. but this would be splitting hairs.
But the country is flaming done if it happens. The end.
Ditto
I grew up with the medical school microscope of a doctor at NIH loaned to me, and copies of Plague Fighters and such beside my bed.
Of all the screen names on FR, only yours made me stop in my tracks. Any history you’d care to share? Private mail would be fine, if this spirochete is sensitive to light.
“Blame it on what you will...media and schools for me, but regardless...it is a good time to be old.”
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You echo my words. I have often posted that the Marxist now control Education and the media. Yes, it is not bad to be old now, but living offshore is even better. I am both.
“Hillary becoming our next President would be like nuking the Titanic while it’s sinking.”
http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3
My gosh, I wish I knew how to post pictures! That’s an image that’s just crying for age-amplifying effects in Photoshop!
How sad that in order to continue the “dynasty”tradition we have to look toward the wife of a failed president
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