Politics and Race
As President Lincoln once said, 'You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all the time but you can never fool all of the people all of the time'.
The art of politics is the ability to say one thing and mean another. There has never been an honest politician. If anyone ever needs proof of this, just take Lincoln for example. When Lincoln was elected, nothing in his rhetoric said anything about emancipation yet this has been taught in schools that he was the Great Emancipator.
I believe that the emancipation was one of the worst things that could ever have happened to black people in the United States. Imagine being freed from the chains of bondage, only to have to wait another 100 years to have the US Congress have to pass something like the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Lincoln forcing the southern states to end slavery is akin to what our government is doing today, usurping the rights and powers of the states to make decisions on what is best for their own people.
Don't take these words to mean that I support slavery, but slavery, like communism has its shelf life of working. Communism in Russia only lasted 80 years and it collapsed. What has grown in its place is a hybrid of socialism and capitalism, much like the direction our own country is making these days.
Race is a very sensitive subject, speak on it one way or the other and you will immediately be branded a racist by one race or the other.
You've got the entire drama of Obama/Wright and Clinton and her "First Black President" husband, Bill. Neither one of these duos have their act together. Wright wants to make it about race and Obama wants to turn our country into a socialist wasteland that is subjugated to the whims of creatures like Ahmedinijad (sp?) and Chavez. Clinton would love to take profits of companies and put them into a fund to research alternative forms of energy.
If Clinton wins the primaries by a slim lead, Obama and the blacks will believe that the nomination was stolen, If Obama wins the nomination, Clinton will do everything in her power to wrest the nomination away from him, either way, this will be a most interesting thing to watch on TV.
There is actually a group called "Recreate '68", which will probably turn Denver into a wasteland through riots and what-not.
Anyone who says this election isn't about race has their head screwed firmly up "where the sun doesn't shine". The first viable white woman and the first viable black man, both with an equal chance at taking the nomination. If you look closely at the numbers, there isn't a clear choice. In the Democrat party, (even without OpChaos in action) there isn't a clear choice. People are either voting against one or for the other. Women voting for Clinton and blacks and impressionable young people voting for Obama.
Obama talks and talks about Hope and Change, it's nice to hope but what exactly is he hoping to change? The President of the United States is largely a figurehead, without the power of the Congress behind him or her, the President can't and won't be able to do a damned thing, sad but true.
I think Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II has more power than the President does, people actually respect her. If the President does not have the respect of the people or the Congress, he won't have the power to get anything accomplished.
It's fine if you get elected through race relations or treachery but if your party doesn't control Congress, you're what they call a "lame duck", certainly an apropos name for either of our Democrat candidates, don't you think?
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Do you actually believe "emancipation was one of the worst things that could ever have happened to black people"? You probably would have felt a little bit differently if you were a slave in America in the 18th and 19th centuries. I read similar nonsense recently in an article by Pat Buchanan who wrote, in part, "America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known". Today, you may look back on history and think that the results of slavery are not so bad for the descendants of those brought here on slave ships. But the end NEVER justifies the means. Otherwise, you could justify the Holocaust by saying that the Jews would never have achieved a homeland but for the slaughter of millions by the Nazis. Is it fortunate for Japan that she brought about War World II with the United States? Otherwise, there would be no democracy in Japan. Or, your observation that "Communism in Russia lasted only 80 years and it collapsed." What would you tell the millions of Russians who suffered and died in the Gulags of Siberia during those years - "Don't worry, your suffering will only last 80 years"? By your reasoning, we should not be concerned with what happens to America. Don't worry, it won't last forever. And if we do lose our rights and freedoms that our ancestors fought and died for, it won't be forever. Just be patient - it will all work out in the end.
Your other observation that the office of President of the United States is merely a figurehead position is also nonsense. I can only surmise that you are either a current or a recent graduate from one of the country's liberal universities because I often here this idea postulated from recent Marxist-educated students who learn nothing about our system of government in the current American educational system. Try reading the Constitution of the United States, Articles I, II, and III to understand more about the powers of the three branches of government. It is a magnificent document and I wish more citizens were exposed to its brilliance. There would certainly be a better understanding of our rights and responsibilities as American citizens if more people would read it. Go to http://www.heritage.org to get a free copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
We need to learn from history - not whitewash it. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." (George Santayana, Spanish-born American philosopher)
Steve McCullough
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Repeating history
There is a clear and marked line between suggesting that such barbaric human behaviors have a means to an end.
I am not suggesting that barbarisms such as slavery or communism be condoned as a way of making people appreciate the good things that they enjoy now.
GOD has punished the Jews many times in the past with being sold into slavery, being subjugated by the Romans and so on and so forth. I am not saying that the Holocaust was a means to an end for the Jews but I'm certainly open to the idea.
There was an elimination of the Jewish state for 1,878 years from the Roman annihilation in 70 A.D. to the creation of the modern Jewish State in 1948. The recreation of the state brought into being the last generation that will live until the End of Days.
As to your retort to my comment about the Presidency of the United States.
What we are seeing in the present day with Bush's last veto being overridden is a prime example of what many call a "lame duck" session.
If the Presidents' party does not control Congress, the President has liitle choice but to be nothing more than a rubber stamp for the powers that be which are sitting members of Congress.
Read the Constitution again my good man and you will find that I tell the truth.
BTW, I am a Rush baby, the simple idea of liberalism makes me cringe.