Posted on 05/04/2015 3:57:28 AM PDT by rootin tootin
Last week, even as Baltimore was burning, our “post-partisan” President used the tragedy as an excuse for a political cheap shot. Suggesting that the riots were caused by a paucity of inner city investment, he averred that his agenda “would make a difference right now,” but that he was being thwarted by parsimonious Republicans in Congress. Obama’s claim, which combined a characteristic lie about his own agenda with the insinuation that the GOP is the party of racism, was despicable. But it does offer an opportunity to compare the record of Obama's party on race to that of the Republicans.
Let’s begin at the beginning: The first Democrat president was Andrew Jackson, who was not merely pro-slavery. He personally owned 150 African-American slaves who worked his 1,000 acre cotton plantation. The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. In addition to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, he persuaded Congress to pass the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the U.S. Sadly, Lincoln didn’t live to see the amendment become part of the Constitution because he was murdered by a Democrat before it was ratified by the requisite number of states.
After the failure of their attempt to preserve slavery by seceding from the Union, the Democrats who had led the Confederacy embarked on a campaign of domestic terror to oppose African-American aspirations to equality ...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Who is ‘we’ you tax raising lib. He raised ~ 40 new taxes in those 8 years.
Gov. Martin O'Malley rings up $9.5 billion in new taxes (Andy Brownfield • | June 11, 2013)
Melissa Harris Perry was explaining why this is OK on her show Sunday, says events like Gray's death, the protests and the riots make it politically possible for elected libs to ‘do the right thing’.
‘Monday night we lost 200 businesses – MOST of them were MINORITY-OWNED’ – Maryland Governor
Posted by soopermexican on May 3, 2015 at 6:55 PM in
While I’ve had a lot of fun documenting some of the stupider things that liberals said this week from the Baltimore riots, there’s one thing that really disgusts me. That’s the destruction of businesses by these thugs that are worse than thugs. They’re parasites and maggots.
Maryland Governor Hogan relates the losses:
It makes me sick to my stomach because 200 businesses represented the hopes and dreams and hard work of hundreds of families. Not just black but every color. And those hopes and dreams have been dashed to the ground by these despicable maggots that the liberal press is applauding. It’s absolutely disgusting.
I hope and pray all the decent people whose lives are damaged by these riots find the help they need. And that the perpetrators get imprisoned quickly and for a long damn time.
Millionaires are leaving Maryland for places like Florida in droves. Law of diminishing returns.
Baltimore city sounds like a great place to invest $$$ in a business, especially selling pricy items.
Plenty of entry-level inexperienced potential labor at only a minimum of $12.50 per hour.
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