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Dem Compares Obama’s Unilateral Action on Immigration to Lincoln’s Freeing of the Slaves
The Blaze ^
| Nov. 15, 2014
| Pete Kasperowicz
Posted on 11/15/2014 8:51:28 AM PST by Ben Mugged
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) this week said President Barack Obamas pending plan to give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants will someday be seen as an historical action along the lines of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Johnson, one of several Democrats pushing for Obama to move on his own and allow millions of immigrants to live and work legally in the United States, also said movies would someday be made about Obamas action.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigration
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To: hoagy62
It did not actually free any slaves either.
To: hoagy62
U R right...I stand corrected...dang now we don’t get to have a civil war...lol
Freegards
LEX
To: Oldeconomybuyer
As I recall, several Confederate states freed slaves before the end of the war, causing Lincoln to note “the conflict would last longer than the cause of the conflict.”
To: rusty schucklefurd
The proclamation was aimed at energizing abolition sentiment among the London population. This, along with the Gettysburg address which followed the twin victories there and at Vicksburg, successfully countered once and for all the CSA State Department’s efforts to draw England into the war.
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11/15/2014 11:56:58 AM PST
by
BDParrish
(O God, please bless America!)
To: DAC21
As dumb as Johnson's Guam question was, I personally regard his snarky comments about Republican attempts to safeguard the Helium reserve as even stupider. He mocks Republicans with an air of superiority over their attempts to "protect little kids' balloons," without any clue that Helium is necessary in all kinds of advanced research and high technology applications, and he took to the floor to do so. He wasn't simply saying some remarkably stupid thing off-the-cuff as he had been with Guam, but in prepared remarks in that particular case. The fact that his staff did not spare him the embarrassment over his floor speech tells you that they're probably just as dim as he is.
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11/15/2014 12:19:23 PM PST
by
FredZarguna
(Jean à de longues moustaches. Je répète: Jean à de longues moustaches.)
To: gov_bean_ counter
Trust me he is too stupid to live. Now picture a whole district of Hank Johnsons who are also too stupid to live and that’s how he keeps getting elected. The illegals will be the ones who take the few jobs Hank’s constituents ever would get a shot at.
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11/15/2014 12:19:44 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Flash Bazbeaux
Slight correction: Lincoln freed slaves in portions of the country in open rebellion during a war that had legally seceded. He did not free slaves in New Orleans, or Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware Maryland or Washington DC. There was NO 'civil war'...The South did NOT wish to over-throw the North. The Const. only says how a State can be added; it is presumed the State can remove itself as well, or the whole idea of the Constitution itself, Federalism/9th/10th, is a farce. IE: We the People, of the independent States, giving the Fed. SOME authority, that we could, somehow, NOT get back?? Defies logic.
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11/15/2014 12:44:21 PM PST
by
i_robot73
(Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
To: Ben Mugged
Ah, but the Emancipation Proclamation was strictly a military measure during a time of war (and did not include slave-holding border states that remained loyal to the Union). Lincoln knew that it would not hold up legally once the Civil War ended, hence the 13th Amendment. I guess that the libs never bothered to watch the movie.
Apples and oranges.
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11/15/2014 12:53:43 PM PST
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Ben Mugged
Lincoln actually didactic contrary to his constitutional role...
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posted on
11/15/2014 1:13:42 PM PST
by
RnMomof7
To: Ben Mugged
To: Ben Mugged
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free one single slave.
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11/16/2014 5:34:03 AM PST
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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