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Topic: Obama Aide: ´With these Republicans there´d still be slavery today´ |
Obama Aide: ´With these Republicans there´d still be slavery today´
Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By:Fiesta del sol, 12/3/2012 9:34:37 AM
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| MSNBC host Chuck Todd reported that a "very smart White House aide" told him that "with this Republican, with the way politics of Washington are today, there´d still be slavery.""You´re going to like this," MSNBC host Chuck Todd said this morning on TV. "So, I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aide to the president last week, and he said, ´You know, with this Republican, with the way politics of Washington are today, there´d still be slavery. Lincoln wouldn´t have been able to navigate the polarization between the media between this--´ It was an interesting and depressing observation
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Comments: To Chuck Todd and MSNBC, this is interesting. That WH aide is smart, look at how they get their disgusting talking points mainstreamed.BTW, this was on Morning Joe. The ´legitimate´ news show on MSNBC. Can GOP members please stop going on this show?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/3/2012 9:39:50 AM (No. 9045678)
There would have been NO Civil Rights with the likes of democrats like Al Gore Sr., Robert kkk Byrd, Fulbright, etc. Damn fools! Is there ONE Republican who will go out and read this fool the riot act?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lazyman, 12/3/2012 9:40:17 AM (No. 9045680)
I wonder if he knows that Lincoln was a Republican.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40, 12/3/2012 9:57:21 AM (No. 9045722)
#1, we all know that. It has been explained ad nauseam. If they keep repeating the lie it becomes part of the folklore. Remember Clinton and Gingrich´s ´Medicare Cuts´? We need some one like Lee Atwater to fight fire with fire.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
spahrkl, 12/3/2012 9:59:44 AM (No. 9045725)
this man, Obama, and his ilk have done more to create discord among men. The South, who were the Democrats, wanted slavery. The North, Republicans, etc., wanted freedom for all men, and paid a huge price for this stand. Now, the Democrats claim Republicans are for slavery!
Yes, I too wish we had 50 Newts to tongue lash these people with such comments and set the record straight. Read history!!!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
provide, 12/3/2012 10:07:46 AM (No. 9045741)
You want slavery? Just waiting until Sharia gets a foothold. After all the Koran allows it, particularly as pillage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/3/2012 10:09:36 AM (No. 9045745)
Okay, here´s a question. Who would own slaves and what would they be doing? Recall that when you own a slave it´s a lot more expensive and time consuming than owning, say, a tractor. Or hiring some migrant workers to do your picking. So, for what reason would anyone own a slave?
I´d like to know Chuck Todd´s answer to that. Of course he didn´t say it. It was a really smart anonymous staffer who said it. Yeah, right.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 12/3/2012 10:12:25 AM (No. 9045753)
Still wonder why violent black on white crime has skyrocketed in the last two years?
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/10/obama-doj-growth-in-violent-crimes-against-whites/
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sanspeur, 12/3/2012 10:13:53 AM (No. 9045758)
Could someone please tell those staffers they are NOT worth the cost of their upkeep .... 54 trees indeed!!,
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
paulfromTexas, 12/3/2012 10:18:11 AM (No. 9045771)
What a moron. How someone so historically illiterate can make an observation as this can be accounted only to his lack of intellect. The founding aim of the Republican party was freeing the african race from bandage. Lincoln just did it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 12/3/2012 10:25:19 AM (No. 9045782)
There are times that I consider myself a slave- especially on April 15th.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena, 12/3/2012 10:30:22 AM (No. 9045793)
More recently than slavery, would the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have passed without Republican support?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
philly_patriot, 12/3/2012 10:44:08 AM (No. 9045835)
I´m increasingly insulted .......... and even sometimes wonder these days whether the price we paid to stop slavery was worth it ......... since it isn´t appreciated by those we freed.
NOTE My Grandfathers eldest brother died in a Confederate Prison camp ........... another relative died along with his wife,[who was nursing him] at a hospital of disease.
Additionally 2 cousins were officers in a USCT unit ........... I´m not counting the total number of relatives who fought in the War ............ and those wounded.
It was the Ds who fought FOR Slavery, stupid!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
pickle1, 12/3/2012 10:47:05 AM (No. 9045845)
I also wonder if this pea brain knows the civil war was fought over economics and power; not slavery. Lincoln and others could have cared less about slavery.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan, 12/3/2012 10:55:42 AM (No. 9045862)
A higher percentage of Republicans voted for EVERY Civil Rights bill than Democrats! Especially before 1964. There were actually black senators and congressmen before democraps took control of the WH again - then they were gone because of Jim Crow laws and the KKK that were both creations of democraps.
Why the Republicans don´t trumpet this more often confounds me.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Npcoach, 12/3/2012 12:20:11 PM (No. 9046073)
Except for the inconvenient fact that democrats were the slave holders and hundreds of thousands of republicans fought and died to free them - the guy must have sort of point.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
heartlandconservative, 12/3/2012 4:36:56 PM (No. 9046623)
Chuck Todd+ very smart White House aide = ROCK = dumb. Don´t tell these two the truth about old Abe, I doubt they could handle it.
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