Posted on 07/03/2010 2:21:06 AM PDT by Scanian
It is a good rule of thumb not to speak ill of the dead. But what to do when a man is celebrated beyond the limits of decorum or common sense?
Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate in American history, died Monday. It was truly a remarkable career. But what's more remarkable is how he has been lionized by the champions of liberalism.
On Thursday, Byrd's colleagues took the unusual step of honoring him with a special service on the Senate floor, where he would lay in repose -- with some irony -- on the Lincoln Catafalque, the bier used to hold the slain body of the president who freed the slaves. The irony stems from the fact that for much of Byrd's life, his allegiances were with Lincoln's opponents in that effort
Not long ago, the assembled forces of liberalism were convinced that the Senate was "broken," that the anachronistic filibuster impeded progress. The Senate itself, with its arcane rules and procedures, had become undemocratic and was in need of vital reform, according to all of the usual voices.
John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and a sort of archbishop of liberalism, drew on his deep command of political theory and social science to explain that the US political system "sucks," in significant part due to the unwieldiness of the Senate.
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1820’s: The “Underground Railroad” began as an informal network of safe houses which helped runaway slaves escape to freedom It was mainly organized by Quakers and Mennonites. 2 “It existed rather openly in the North. The Underground Railroad, where it existed, offered local service to runaway slaves, assisting them from one point to another.” 3 Harriet Tubman (circa 1820 - 1913), a black abolitionist, walked to freedom. Then she returned 19 times into slave territory and led over 300 individuals, including her family and relatives, out of slavery. Lucretia Mott was a Quaker abolitionist who harbored runaways slaves in her Philadelphia home.
You have to admit that they did good work in the North with regards to this subject. Proof is provided above.
Bull. The North held slaves, too. It was only durring after the war while history was being rewrote that the idea that the north didn’t own slaves was invented. I don’t want to refight the Civil War, and I believe that slavery is very wrong but this idea that the south mistreated their slaves is mostly a myth. They were considered property and you take care of your property. Of course there were always exceptions. I know its just bad to own another human being but we’re talking about the ninteenth century here.
Would you be interested in purchasing a bridge that connects Brooklyn with New York City?
You could charge tolls and everything.
The KKK killed a lot of white people too but we don’t hear much about that just wouldn’t be PC.
Well said!
One need not have to speak ill of departed Senator Robert Byrd. Fact is: For all the ballyhoo about his passing, the country and the American people could care less. The same goes for the passing of Teddy Kennedy, the supposed “Lion of the Senate”. Truth be known, these folks and others like them are really passe, their time and usefullness has long passed and....so, really not many folks give a darn, one way or the other!!!
So when did Indiana become part of the South? It was a hotbed of Klan activity in the earlier part of the 20th century. And I say this as someone who grew up in the Hoosier state and still has most of her family there.
I’ve lived both in the northern and southern states (currently residing in Arkansas) over the course of my 37 years. I’ve seen the good and the bad of all of them, but they’re all American. It has become a childish pasttime on FR to play this ‘but the South did this’ and ‘Lincoln did that’ game. Yes, I’m sure they both did, but it’s called HISTORY. We learn from it, remember it, and move on with history in mind.
FWIW, my father moved down South after my parents’ divorce in the 80s as his job dictated. He spent the last 10 years of his life in Florida and Georgia. He loved living there with everything he had, but he sure missed White Castles ;)
I had the TV on mute but I heard the media gushing about what a great reception Clinton got. I think his nickname from the left is the Big Dog. Imagine that. The Big Dog and The Crazed Sex Poodle. Quite a pair of dogs they were.
Yes, I noticed him say “clan loyalty” as well as discuss his past in the KKK. I dont believe he was trying to justify his past, but did it to humiliate a guy who went against Hillary in 2008. Clinton does everything to polish his legacy and has many grudges against Dems.
“I saw Harry Reid hold up a copy of the Constitution.”
What you saw was only the cover.... there are no pages within his copy.
They say he was dyslexic. So he wasn’t really a member of the KKK.
He was a member of the KKK.
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