Posted on 10/16/2007 7:08:55 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
He sure as hell needs to.
Idiot. He’s feeding the race-baiters.
Thanks a lot, Sam. NOT!
“The whole art of politics today consists of pandering to the weakness, fears, and greed of the people.”
Switchback pretty much hits it out of the park on this one.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
He needs to abandon the podium in the race. He has “zero” chance.
Our best candidate, Fred Thompson was a Senator
I have NOT read the whole thread but it is called ‘compassionate’ conservatism.... give aways before the liberals come to take what we have...
Sam has never been the sharpest tool in the shed. And when desperation sets in and even you chance of being picked as Veep start to fade away then you try anything.
Slavery is a horrible thing. It fetters the human spirit, and inevitably destroys the lives of both the slave and the owner.
Chattel slavery has been illegal, thank God, in these United States for over a hundred years. But, in its place, we have erected another, more insidious form.
Today, the cruel master is the government, whose promises to "help" have brought nothing but destruction. Because welfare policies promote money for babies, we have more poor illegitimate children suckling from the public teat than we should. Because welfare policies discourage self-support, we have generations of people who have learned not to forge ahead with their dreams, but to lounge atop the largesse of the taxpayer.
Governmental "charity" has wrought all of this on the descendents of those who once were slaves. But that is not even the worst offense. Not by a long shot!
Much worse is the financial chains that have shackled the taxpayer into supporting other men's families. Inifinitely more grievous is the ongoing pillaging of that most personal of property - one's paycheck.
For that, this conservative [me, not Brownback] is truly remorseful.
Now, we must fight to right this wrong, and to give those in true need a hand-up, instead of a hand-out!
What you just mentioned is like the theme of Bunyan’s ‘’Pilgrim’s Progress’’ but from a political, instead of a spiritual, standpoint. To say that the GOP routinely shoots itself in the foot seems like a cliche and a vast understatement, doesn’t it? I think these guys are secret HRC supporters, considering how they campaign. Certainly they are 2008 versions of Lazio of 2000.
Right, I think Fred is already missing the cast of ‘’Law and Order’’ and knows he has entered the quicksand without an exit strategy. However, Republican primary voters, I am sure, will give him the exit strategy.
Right, I think Fred is already missing the cast of ‘’Law and Order’’ and knows he has entered the quicksand without an exit strategy. However, Republican primary voters, I am sure, will give him the exit strategy.
Congress declined sharply after Senator Helms retired.
Brownback needs to drop out BEFORE the debate not after.
can we toss in a resolution demanding an appology for about 400 years of slavery under the ottoman empire?
a twoferone?
Unfortunately, outside the top three or four, ALL the wannabe's who register single digit support percentages should step aside, but that won't happen until they run the money out. They don't care that more than half of Americans don't even know who they are!
There's a tremendous waste of time and money going on that could better be utilized to promote the ELECTABLE candidate(s).
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Washington, D.C.
March 4, 1865At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
“They were federal policies,” he said. “They were wrong. The only way for us to move forward . . . is at the end of day acknowledging those, taking ownership for it, and asking for forgiveness.”
Sorry, 600,000 dead Americans paid for the ‘sin’ of slavery. I don’t owe anyone an apology.
Likewise, segregation...gee, which political party supported that concept in the first place?
It wasn’t Brownback’s alleged party.
This guy is as dumb as I thought he was.
Brownback is a complete ass, and he will never win anything.
The ONLY requirement is a $200 airplane ticket and the price of a hotel room. Figure $500 to appear on a debate.
DIRT CHEEP. (kind of funny when you think keys is not there)
They will not run out of money for that type of free airtime.
Heck ronpaul has too many hsu style “donors” to allow that.
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