Posted on 07/02/2010 12:05:55 PM PDT by RightCenter
“Yes slavery was one of many issues. But this author is not being accurate by pulling out one issue from 50 and trying to make his point.”
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Tell me about it, I’m from the cradle of the confederacy, born, raised and picked cotton within ten miles of the site of the first secession meeting. Confederate veterans on both sides of my family tree. I laugh at the clowns who think Lincoln’s whole focus was to do away with slavery.
History lessons from a moron. The phrase is "sidles up to the bar." Back to grade school for the idiot that wrote that.
Interesting.
I think his only point is the irony of having big head of Crazy Horse when Crazy Horse himself didn’t want to have his picture taken. So, was he like Mohammad, then?
Some good mixed in with the some horridly biased retellings of stories.
For example, Fawkes is indeed an anarchist, of a very long standing type. The type that sees a period of anarchy as a necessary phase between governments.
Thomas Paine was also right, by natural law, in insisting that a civilized society has a duty to the most poor in it. In our American ideal, that is, by the intent of the Framers of the Constitution, that duty was to be carried out by the STATES, and the Federal Government had no authority granted it to do so. Grover Cleveland’s famous rejection of Congress’ attempt to provide federal relief after a drought in Texas is a noted example of that lack of Constitutional authority to provide such social distress or local emergency relief. It was usual in the times of the Founders for counties, towns and states to provide poorhouses, paltry sustenance doles for the extremely old or poor.
Not surprising. The Rights of Man calls for income distribution and The Age of Reason attacks the Bible.
Paine was very popular before and during the Revolution because of Common Sense and The Crisis, but became wildly unpopular afterwards because of his increasingly radical views. New York City named a street in his honor and then quickly re-named it.
Don't blame you. Lincoln made it quite clear that his overriding priority was to preserve the union, not end slavery. That did not necessarily mean that he favored slavery.
Cool post
I was going to comment but saw yours. Right on the mark for what I would have said.
You complete me..... LOL
Thomas Paine went off his rocker after the Revolution- to the point that none of the Founding Fathers wanted to have anything to do with him.
The author misses the point that virtually everyone under Mexico's authority was a slave to a very despotic tyranny.
Excellent catch!
Bah! The real travesty is carving a massive monument in a mountain of someone whose people couldn't in a thousand years have done much more than scrape his stick figure onto the side of a rock.
it sounds better than Openly Mock Minnesota.
Interesting article. Naturally freepers have pointed out a few flaws. :-)
I objected to the notion that Tea Partiers and Libertarians are saying there's too many brown people. That's nothing but slander.
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“That did not necessarily mean that he favored slavery.”
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No, it doesn’t mean that at all. By the time the fighting started some SLAVEHOLDERS didn’t favor it any longer, they didn’t know how to get out of it. After reconstruction the sharecropping system turned out to be much better for the large landowner. They could exploit both black and white without having to buy anybody.
I happen to be quite a historian and an expert on all Injun matters thanks to the couple of hundred horsepoop and gunpowder movies I watched as a kid. So take it on my good authority that many Native Americans thought being photographed resulted in the theft of their soul.
Well, Paine was also a hard-core atheist. And not the simple Jeffersonian kind, but the bitter against God and all things Christian kind. Pretending he was some full-blown Marxist is misleading, but if he’s included among the founding fathers, he’s definitely the most leftist of the lot.
I’m not surprised of that. I knew some people in Indonesian village also hold similar belief.
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