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Nancy Pelosi: ´The Emancipation Proclamation Was an Executive Order´
Caroline May ^ | 11/20/14 | Caroline May

Posted on 11/20/2014 5:40:13 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi argues President Barack Obama has ample authority to take executive actions as many presidents before him have done, including President Abraham Lincoln. “Does the public know the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order?” Pelosi asked reporters Thursday. “People have to understand how presidents have made change in our country, Congress catching up, and in the case of Ronald Reagan, improving what Congress has done.” Obama is poised to announce his long-anticipated executive actions on immigration Thursday night. Reports indicate he will move to grant legal status to about five million illegal immigrants.

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KEYWORDS: emancipation; order; pelosi; proclamation
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To: The Antiyuppie

LOL like Julia Carson from here in Indiana, her final year they would wheel her comatose body onto the House floor for important votes.


41 posted on 11/20/2014 6:24:09 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: Nachum

Pelosi is one of the “stupid American voters” Gruber referred to.


42 posted on 11/20/2014 6:25:41 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Nachum

It went over like a fart in church. It kicked of massive draft riots all over the North and played right into the copperheads hands.


43 posted on 11/20/2014 6:25:59 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Don’t get it. “I love Nancy Pelosi Tree Music?”


44 posted on 11/20/2014 6:28:42 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

You have 80% of it...


45 posted on 11/20/2014 6:33:56 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Nachum
No it wasn't...it was strictly a military order issued during a civil war, and did not include slave holding states that remained in the Union.

Moron.

46 posted on 11/20/2014 6:39:15 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: who knows what evil?

Could you please fill me in on the rest?


47 posted on 11/20/2014 6:44:37 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

You have mail.


48 posted on 11/20/2014 6:46:04 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Nachum

Once again, Nancy’s memory fails her. I’m sure she was there when the EP took place.


49 posted on 11/20/2014 6:55:58 PM PST by Mjaye (Obama's chickens have come home to roost.)
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To: Rome2000

obama has repeatedly compared himself to lincoln.

And he is correct:two presidents from illinois who ignored the Constitution when it didn’t allow their axts.


50 posted on 11/20/2014 6:56:17 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
the traitor Lincoln also imprisoned members of congress who disagreed with him...

Can you name any of the "members of Congress" that Lincoln imprisoned?

Even just one name would do.

51 posted on 11/20/2014 6:57:10 PM PST by Ditto
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To: who knows what evil?

LOL


52 posted on 11/20/2014 7:03:04 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Ditto

Congressman Clement Vallandigham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandigham

quote “On May 5, 1863, Vallandigham was arrested as a violator of General Order Number 38. His enraged supporters burned the offices of the Dayton Journal, the Republican rival to the Empire. Vallandigham was tried by a military court on May 6 and 7. Vallandigham’s speech at Mount Vernon, Ohio was cited as the source of the arrest. He was charged by the Military Commission with “Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38, from Head-quarters Department of the Ohio, sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful rebellion.”


53 posted on 11/20/2014 7:09:33 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Nachum; pookie18; Everybody

54 posted on 11/20/2014 7:18:14 PM PST by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: Ditto

Here is an article about what the traitor Lincoln did in Maryland:

quote “Mayor Brown,[28] U.S. Congressman Henry May, the city council, the police commissioner, and the entire Board of Police, were arrested and imprisoned at Fort McHenry.”

quote “One third of the members of the Maryland General Assembly were then arrested on September 17, 1861, the first day of the legislature’s new session, to prevent any anti-war votes”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_in_the_American_Civil_War


55 posted on 11/20/2014 7:23:16 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: who knows what evil?

I don’t get it....


56 posted on 11/20/2014 7:28:07 PM PST by Jrabbit
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To: Nachum

EP was an emergency measure during wartime and only applicable to the wartime theatre. Not remotely similar to O’s unconstitutional amnesty.


57 posted on 11/20/2014 7:49:49 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: Nachum

If Pelosi had a brain, it would rattle around in her skull like a B-B in a boxcar!


58 posted on 11/20/2014 10:39:24 PM PST by octex
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To: Nachum

Good Lord this women is a total moron...........


59 posted on 11/20/2014 11:11:56 PM PST by 48th SPS (Not Republican. Not a Democrat. I am an American)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
Congressman Clement Vallandigham

Vallandigham was a former Congressman and a noted Copper Head. He was arrested by military authorities for inciting soldiers to desert their posts in a time of war.

Lincoln ordered him to be released and sent South to the Confederates.

60 posted on 11/21/2014 6:09:55 AM PST by Ditto
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