tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post7173708346916275294..comments2024-03-28T02:13:53.054-05:00Comments on <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v701/Attaturk/fez.png"> Rising Hegemon : What E.J. Dionne saysAttaturkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08511961896699190171noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-27205932275299641852010-12-30T14:02:42.495-06:002010-12-30T14:02:42.495-06:00a group of wealthy elites that dominated the disco...<i>a group of wealthy elites that dominated the discourse and politics of a region </i><br /><br />With the active support, let's not forget, of millions of authoritarian-follower, willfully-stupid, parochial tribal goobers who barely had a pot to piss in, let alone to ever own slaves, because they desperately needed someone below them on the heirarchy to hate rather than face the fact that they were poor white trash being mercilessly exploited by the elites.<br /><br />Thank FSM there's no political dynamic like that in this country anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-42495349470307202822010-12-27T18:17:32.046-06:002010-12-27T18:17:32.046-06:00I have been involved with ACW discussion on the In...I have been involved with ACW discussion on the Internet for 18 years, starting with list serv and moving on to various web sites. The bullshit excuses are the same (see Lincoln quote above as example) The truth is always obvious, straight forward and unimpeachable. But the same morons make the same stupid arguments over and over. Like the teabaggers Southron apologists ignore the truth, discard the evidence and fabricate their own reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-41074875938353317982010-12-27T17:39:36.391-06:002010-12-27T17:39:36.391-06:00The past isn't dead. It's not even past. W...The past isn't dead. It's not even past. Wm. Faulkner<br />voxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-51514903693341616872010-12-27T16:46:13.969-06:002010-12-27T16:46:13.969-06:00You can find the original Ordinances of Secession ...You can find the original Ordinances of Secession from Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas online. This is where these states laid down their reasons for seceding from the union. If you do a word search for "slave," "slavery," and similar words like "slaveholder," you'll get over 80 hits. Search for "taxes" (one of the reasons now given for secession), you'll get about a half-dozen matches. Look for "tariffs" and "states' rights" (two of the other after-the-fact reasons) and you get nothing.<br /><br />But don't take my word for it. Here's Alexander Stephens, Jeff Davis' vice-president, contradicting Jefferson's view of slavery as a violation of the laws of nature: <br /><br />"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea. Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical and moral truth."Zak44noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-12263449883793913562010-12-27T16:36:25.948-06:002010-12-27T16:36:25.948-06:00And that, of course is why Lincoln said this in hi...And that, of course is why Lincoln said this in his first inaugural address<br /><br />"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."<br /><br />You are so full of shit.Bilejoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426920337506809987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-24782017768005071822010-12-27T16:29:01.241-06:002010-12-27T16:29:01.241-06:00Reaganomics didn't get passed with my vote. A...Reaganomics didn't get passed with my vote. Agreed about Carter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-90065974703060331492010-12-27T16:00:39.483-06:002010-12-27T16:00:39.483-06:00We had that kind of leadership thirty years ago, A...We had that kind of leadership thirty years ago, Anon -- his name was Carter, and we kicked his ass to the curb for Reaganomics.StonyPillownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-27482075923417161602010-12-27T15:32:07.779-06:002010-12-27T15:32:07.779-06:00Isn't this happening again 150 years later..el...Isn't this happening again 150 years later..elites "owning" the rest of us as we work at 2 jobs to make enough to shop at Walmart...the company store. If only we had the leadership of Lincoln to help us get back on track.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-19004196449154287582010-12-27T12:31:09.751-06:002010-12-27T12:31:09.751-06:00but confederate shit is worth more cause there'...but confederate shit is worth more cause there's less of it. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.pansypoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164502315120164024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657367.post-32494219350101340322010-12-27T08:19:35.002-06:002010-12-27T08:19:35.002-06:00Wealth putting economic self interest before count...Wealth putting economic self interest before country. No wonder today's Republicans lurve them some Lost Cause.<br /><br />Let's not sugar coat it. Republicans are anti-American.StonyPillownoreply@blogger.com