August 08, 2004
When it Rains, it Pours
from - smijer
This will be my fourth post for Sunday. I've found that most people are not reading on the weekend, so I can only hope that a few readers will find the time to look through all the Saturday and Sunday posting I've done this weekend, and that it will not all be for ought. Anyway, it's official. Alan Keyes has endorsed Hillary Clinton. If you don't know what that means, then do a google search on these words:
I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it.
Try to find out who said them.
(Hat tip to the entire farking blogosphere.)
::Posted by smijer at August 8, 2004 09:41 PM
I love it when the answer is located in the post. I read today where a pundit had written that there was no way that Keyes could run in Illinois because it would make him a "hypocrite". Imagine that. A hypocritical politician. And a Bible toting hypocrite no less. Keyes was quoted as spouting off about how he was living in "the land of Lincoln". If Lincoln would have had his way Alan would be running for office somewhere in South America.
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Posted by boortzlistener on August 9, 2004 04:31 PM Link to comment |
I guess I don't get what you were saying about Lincoln, but...
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Posted by smijer on August 9, 2004 08:35 PM Link to comment |
Hehe. His acceptance speech reminds me of how much more entertaining it would be if the religious right put up more candidates of Keyes' conviction for significant political positions.
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Posted by anonymusrex on August 10, 2004 06:43 AM Link to comment |
South America is mentioned towards the end.
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Posted by boortzlistener on August 10, 2004 01:47 PM Link to comment |
Dammit!
It is easier for me to do this I guess
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo49.html
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Posted by boortzlistener on August 10, 2004 01:49 PM Link to comment |
Kind of reminds me of that song from the musical Hair...
"I's free now, thanks to y'all Massah Lincoln, emancipator of the slaves... emanci-mother-f*ing-pator of the slaves."
I remember the Liberia thing, and I've known that Lincoln was infected with much of the same racial prejudice as others were in his time. He still deserves credit for seeing the moral necessity of abolition, though. I guess that's why the other Lincoln song from Hair is "Happy Birthday Abie Baby..."
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Posted by smijer on August 10, 2004 03:00 PM Link to comment |
You’re giving the old guy too much credit. Slavery was moral justification for an immoral act. It provided cover. The war was about the same thing all wars are about. Money and who is going to get the most of it.
Happy Birthday Abe…………sic semper tyrannis!
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Posted by boortzlistener on August 10, 2004 04:02 PM Link to comment |
I don't know. I know it wasn't a Union soldier who fired that first shot at Ft. Sumter. I've also read a little bit of Lincoln's history - he stikes me as a touch more straight-up than George W. Monroe Doctrine Bush.
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Posted by smijer on August 10, 2004 08:11 PM Link to comment |
I know it wasn't a Union soldier who fired that first shot at Ft. Sumter
Yeah, but they only killed one horse.
he stikes me as a touch more straight-up than George W. Monroe Doctrine Bush.
While Lincoln sailed the ship of State over 600,000 Americans died. And as DiLorenzo writes "Lincoln essentially declared himself dictator and proceeded to launch a war without the consent of Congress, suspend habeas corpus, shut down over 300 opposition newspapers, imprison tens of thousands of Northern political opponents, including numerous newspaper editors and owners, deport an outspoken Democratic congressman, Clement Vallandigham of Ohio, censor the telegraph, confiscate private property, confiscate firearms in the border states, imprison duly elected members of the Maryland legislature, the mayor of Baltimore, and Congressman Henry May of Baltimore, instruct soldiers to rig Northern elections, and generally ignore all constitutional restrictions on executive powers"
Bush is not above any of this but he has not gotten there yet.
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Posted by boortzlistener on August 11, 2004 12:03 AM Link to comment |
