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Posted on 11/15/2010 10:22:04 AM PST by Nachum
President Obama's picture book for kids, Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters (Knopf, $17.99), pays tribute to 13 Americans whose traits he sees in his own children.
The 31-page book, for kids ages 3 and up, is filled with lyrical questions for Malia, 12, and Sasha, 9, opening with, "Have I told you lately how wonderful you are?"
The book, out Tuesday, is illustrated with Loren Long's paintings of the Obama girls and their dog, Bo, as well as the 13 famous Americans as kids and grown-ups.
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.foxnews.com ...
his name would be, “He who speaks but says NOTHING”.
I think your issue is with the, uh, journalist who penned the article, or the editor who concocted the headline for the story.
Nowhere in the accompanying article does custer appear as a general.
His name is "Reads From Telepromter".
I agree with you.
Sitting Bull, Tatanka Yotanka - whose name doesn’t literally mean Sitting Bull, but rather a Bull Buffalo who has taken up a position to fight, was a Great American. He fought for his people against a rapacious, duplicitious, racist government trying to exercise a policy of ethnic cleansing.
He didn’t personally kill Custer anyway. He and his warriros were defending their village from attack by an irresponsible, glory-seeking maniac. And had Custer succeeded at the Little Bighorn, he very well may have gone on to afflict us as a U.S. President.
The Lakota did us a favor.
Custor was the yahoo who hung Mosby’s partisans in the Civil War, possibly initiating a series of mutual POW murders.
I regret the deaths of the brave troops who died under the command of this maniac, as I regret the deaths of the tribesmen killed in the action.
He was a Yahoo.
I’m not going to criticize him for having respect for Sitting Bull.
The Forked Tongue Chief
***and since when is it bad to celebrate an American who stood up to a lying and cheating federal government who sends troops after women and children?***
Perhaps it is because the Sioux were invaders of CROW Indian territory, where the Little bighorn is located.
The CROWS were enemies of the Sioux and were scouting with Custer at that time.
” Obama’s publisher says he’s not planning interviews or events for the book. “
The text does not even remotely resemble Barry’s usual non teleprompter incoherent ramblings.
Another book obviously written by someone else that Barry would be incapable of discussing.
Barry claims on page 13 of Dreams From Bill Ayers that an ancestor on his typical white grandmother’s side
was full-blooded Cherokee.
And not only is he related to a decorated Union soldier, but,
also to Jefferson Davis.
Son Of A Thousand Fathers.
Custer was a complicated historical character, who was neither the baby killing coward which PC historians paint him to be, nor was he a heroic martyr as he is painted by some romantic historians.
His good points were that he was rightfully contemptuous of the U.S. Grant administration's policies which sought to placate the Sioux and other more aggressive tribes at the expense of the Mandan, Hidatsa and other peaceful tribes who had been decimated by Siouxian aggression.
On the other hand, he made little attempt to distinguish between the warlike aggressive Sioux tribes who had precipitated the Minnesota Massacres of 1862 and those who had merely been passive participants spurred on by starvation conditions of corrupt Indian agents or even refused to participate at all and greatly mitigated what would have been a far higher toll of Minnesota settlers by warning them and getting them out of harm's way.
To Custer, all Sioux and her allies were the enemy, including women and children. This clouded his judgment. He also made the tactical mistake of not waiting for his full force to group before launching his ill-fated attack at Little Big Horn.
Sitting Bull himself eventually was persuaded to lay down his arms and landed a gig at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. This would never have happened had he been the bloodthirsty savage that many at the time sought to portray him.
Sadly, he had a tragic end being killed at Wounded Knee some 14 years after Little Big Horn while leading a peaceful protest against BIA police.
It isn’t clear what Lt. Col. Custer intended to do, but he almost certainly did not intend to fight. The Indians were reacting to white squatters who were prospecting on land that the U.S. Government had promised the Indians. When there were incidents between the Indians and squatters, George Armstrong “Last in his Class” Custer was sent to “investigate”. Custer, who had not earned his brevet calvary generalship during the Civil War for his levelheadedness and reserve was probably the wrong person to send on such a mission. When the Indians saw that the squatters were followed by calvary, they drew the obvious, and sadly probably correct, conclusion.
Custer was a coward, and therefore a bully. There is nothing redeeming in his military actions.
Frankly, I prefer to have the Sioux in my heritage. I would be ashamed to have Custer there.
** No one knows who killed Custer but he might have been shot crossing the Little Big Horn before the route up Last Stand Hill.**
I read that years ago in a book titled CUSTER’S FALL.
As previously stated Sitting Bull did not kill Custer
Custer was far from competent in the context of "Indian fighting".
Looking at the US Federal government's treatment of Indians, one could reasonably assume that the policy was to utterly subjugate them, and, failing that, to wipe them out.
The Obastard no more wrote this book than I was on the first lunar landing.
Quite a strange headline to your post.
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