[Flash Bazbeaux]

Lincoln freed slaves in portions of the country in open rebellion during a war. He did not free slaves in New Orleans, or Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware Maryland or Washington DC.

Which war is Obama waging?

[i_robot73]

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.