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Obama garbles U.S. history in human trafficking speech
The Washington Times ^
| Sept. 25, 2012
| Dave Boyer and Susan Crabtree
Posted on 09/25/2012 4:47:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If Lincoln’s goal were to end slavery he would have done it in his own land first.
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
09/25/2012 4:50:08 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: Free ThinkerNY
There's slavery in Dubai - construction workers ‘paid’ 25 cents an hour - house in un- air-conditioned barracks - provided with a cot for 8 hours. When time's up they have to give the cot to the next man - three men will share the same cot - eight hours each. If they try to escape their pictures are hung in the main taxi hub - so drivers can spot them and get a reward. I'm sure the New York Times will be all over this one...
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posted on
09/25/2012 4:53:17 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(You only establish a feel for the line by having crossed it. - - Freeper One Name)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Lincoln's goal was to keep the United States intact. He said if he could do it by freeing all the slaves, or by not freeing any slaves, he would do what it took. The Emancipation Proclamation was a war measure.
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posted on
09/25/2012 4:53:31 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: greatvikingone
It was the goal of the Abolitionists.
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posted on
09/25/2012 4:55:03 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama’s goal is to get re elected. Everything he does or says is directed toward that end. Once he gets re elected this great country will be toast!
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posted on
09/25/2012 4:56:58 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
“War never solves anything.” [/stupid Liberal-speak]
To: Free ThinkerNY
“Emancipation Proclamation in 1862.”
The man is not from here.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:01:21 PM PDT
by
combat_boots
(The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
To: greatvikingone
Lincoln was the head of a Party founded on the goal of ending slavery. He didn’t believe the President had Constitutional authority to do that. He correctly understood it would take a Constitutional Amendment to achieve it, which is why the Emancipation Proclamation did not cover States still part of the United States of America.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:02:07 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(The future belongs to those who love BACON!)
To: Free ThinkerNY
But Lincolns goal was indeed to end slavery Well, let's just say it was a corollary goal.
"I would save the Union...."
To: FredZarguna
That’s some mighty fine spin. But it doesn’t pass the sniff test.
To: FredZarguna
Lincoln never recognized that the southern states had legally left the Union. He pronounced the slaves free in places that were rebelling against the authority of the United States government as a necessity of war. He left the non-rebelling slave states alone because he needed their continued support.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:09:47 PM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
President Obama called on nations Tuesday to end the modern slavery of human traffickingAnd yet, Obama's efforts to prevent effective policing of US borders directly encourage and enable human trafficking.
Obama has completely failed in his Constitutional duty to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed"- in fact, he has done exactly the opposite, by intentionally directing that the laws be ignored.
So, once again Obama spouts obvious lies that somehow the 'journalists' all seem to miss, and instead the 'journos' divert the conversation to the details of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:11:36 PM PDT
by
Zeppo
("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
To: Free ThinkerNY
Surprised he did not call the Civil War a “bump in the road” on the way to freeing the slaves.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:11:56 PM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Ambassador Stevens is dead and the Chevy Volt is alive!)
To: greatvikingone
I don’t expect it to pass the sniff test with the “lost causers.”
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:12:27 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
("The future does not belong to those who do not eat bacon.")
To: Genoa
I accept your correction that he did not regard the cotton states as leaving the union; he was, as in most things, correct about that. The rest of the statement stands. He had special powers in the parts of the country where the inhabitants were waging a civil war against the US; he had no such power in the Border States.
Political considerations are overplayed by the lost causers because it's convenient to a laughably anti-historical argument that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War. When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, the Border States saw the writing on the wall; anyone who thinks otherwise is grasping at historical straws.
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09/25/2012 5:20:08 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
("The future does not belong to those who do not eat bacon.")
To: Free ThinkerNY
Wonder if Obama ever read these quotes from his hero, Lincoln?
‘I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.’
Abraham Lincoln
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:21:09 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: FredZarguna
If Lincoln did not consider the CSA a separate country, he would lack the same “Constitutional Authority” he lacked in the North to free slaves. If he did consider the CSA a separate country, he had a Constitutional obligation to request permission from Congress to wage war.
The fact is Lincoln wasn’t interested in freeing slaves, he was interested in holding the Union together at any cost.
To: greatvikingone
Sure he wasn’t. Keep dreaming.
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posted on
09/25/2012 5:28:21 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
("The future does not belong to those who do not eat bacon.")
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