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Herman Cain Introduces Cain TV And Sets Race Relations Back By Twenty Years

ProudProgressive 2012/07/04 00:51:16
I give you my word, I did not make this up. As far as I have been able to tell, this story is real, and the video actually is supposedly a trailer for Herman Cain's new "CainTV". I hope that I have fallen for a joke. I didn't think Herman Cain was qualified to be President, but I didn't think he was totally stupid. I just have to ask you to watch for yourself and draw your own conclusions.

Article excerpt follows:

Herman Cain Introduces Cain TV And Sets Race Relations Back By Twenty Years
By Justin Rosario
July 3, 2012

You know what? I can't even think of a way to introduce this so just watch it.

WARNING! THIS VIDEO MIGHT INDUCE SEIZURES IN PEOPLE WITH WORKING BRAINS!


I'll wait until you're done twitching.

Better? Good.

Rawstory sums it up nicely:

He (Cain) also published what can only be described as one of the strangest trailers for any product, ever. It's so bizarre that it actually defies description by trained, professional journalists, such as ourselves.

I think Rachel Maddow had it absolutely right: Herman Cain is a performance artist and his entire campaign has been a giant practical joke on the right-wing. I think the giveaway is the claim that "CAIN TV IS REAL…AMERICAN…EVERYTHING!" Riiiiiight…wink, nudge!

Seriously, the man simply cannot be as stupid as he appears. You don't build a successful pizza chain without some kind of brain between your ears. But look at this thing! It swings wildly from childish mockery of Sandra Fluke by a chubby bald doof to a "let's reinforce every black stereotype" segment called "Street Smarts" to ominous tinfoil hat wearing warnings to the jaw droppingly not funny Kivi. I honestly never thought a black man doing the whole "yessum massa, oh lawdy!" routine would be more offensive than a white man doing it. I guess it's all in the context. The context here, of course, is appealing to an audience of deeply racist conservatives.

Not that the rest of it wasn't perfectly ridiculous. "Liberty is a well-armed lamb?" "Let's give a lamb a gun?" What?! I, the atheist, am actually praying that this is really just a huge practical joke. the alternative is that the right has become so debased that someone actually believes this intellectual dribble would appeal to them. The scary part is that they're probably right.

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  • George Romney 2012/07/04 00:57:00
    George Romney
    +8
    Agree or disagree with the man's politics, but his creepiness levels transcend the party lines and ideological spectrum. He reminds me of "President Camacho" from that movie Idiocracy - you know, the one where Luke Wilson wakes up hundreds of years in the future to a society of morons.
    movie idiocracy luke wilson wakes hundreds years future society morons

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  • ally 2012/07/07 23:29:58
    ally
    This is part of Fox Kid's fall lineup. No more Sesame Street- don't want the little ones learnin' to read or know their numbers.
  • Sissy 2012/07/04 13:43:01
    Sissy
    +2
    Only one word comes to mind:

    "Pathetic" on all counts.
  • CAROLYN NTARWNJBS 2012/07/04 13:40:33
    CAROLYN NTARWNJBS
    +5
    Cain is one strange man,and more than a little creepy.While not being able to carry any kind of political discussion at length,he has his own brand humor.
  • santa6642 2012/07/04 05:14:12
    santa6642
    Amen
  • Queen B 2012/07/04 04:43:19
    Queen B
    +3
    He's a fool, making lots of money from other fools.
  • ProudPr... Queen B 2012/07/04 13:31:19
    ProudProgressive
    +6
    Sarah Palin showed the way - make a complete fool of yourself on a national stage, prove that you're completely unqualified for public office, then go on a extended comedy tour. Every once in a while actually threaten to run for something so people will remember you're alive, and that's about it.

    I will admit, though, that at least Herman Cain has a sense of humor, and so far hasn't tried to exploit his own children.
  • Q ProudPr... 2012/07/04 14:04:35
  • ProudPr... Q 2012/07/04 14:39:39
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    LOL I saw that on the Daily Show. I will admit that Cain has a promising future as a standup comedian.
  • Kirino 2012/07/04 04:30:42
    Kirino
    +1
    My favourite part "Lets give a lamb a gun!" I would watch cain tv if they taught a lamb to shoot.
  • ~HopelessRomanticM17~ 2012/07/04 03:00:12
    ~HopelessRomanticM17~
    +1
    Herman Cain is odd.
  • R. 2012/07/04 02:16:40
    R.
    If that were true ,along with the thirty years that the community organizer set back race relations,and we are back to the civil rights marches,
  • ProudPr... R. 2012/07/04 13:34:45
    ProudProgressive
    +3
    I don't know who you're referring to. President Obama has always been a leader of inclusion, not exclusion. It's unfortunate that there are so many people like you out there who will ignore all of his accomplishments just because he's black. And of course, the fact that you folks way over there on the Right are now trying to repeal the Civil Rights Act says all anyone needs to say about who is trying to redivide this nation along racial lines, though defending a redneck murderer in Florida and demonizing the innocent child he gunned down in cold blood is just icing on your cake, isn't it.

    We are back to civil rights marches because of people like you.
  • R. ProudPr... 2012/07/04 22:35:47
    R.
    Man, you have some anger issues. I don't know you but I try to keep it
    above board and I would ask for the same in return.
    First off , this president has done more harm to race relations than anyone
    I can remember and I was born in 1960. Not just his policies but his unjustice
    department headed up by eric beholden and janet incompetano and the
    homeland insecure department are all accomplices.
    Secondly , he is as much white as he is black so that dog won't hunt.
    Thirdly, I don't care who pulls the trigger , but you need to make DA*N
    sure of the facts before you go accusing someone of such a crime.
    Lastly, you begin by calling me racist, then you accuse me of finding
    some sort of perverted joy in the fact that a human life was taken
    needlessly and on top of all that you refer to yourself as
    " PROUDprogressive " and you and your ilk wonder why people
    despise your agenda. If you must make your responses personal,
    just call me a racist , biggot , etc... and be done with it.
  • ProudPr... R. 2012/07/05 15:28:45
    ProudProgressive
    The President has done nothing to harm race relations in this country. It is the Right Wing that has waged an incessant barrage of racist attacks on the President and by extension anyone who supports him, starting with the birther nonsense, the claims he's secretly a Muslim, the constant associations with Reverend Wright based on one out of context quote repeated endlessly, the "Affirmative Action President", the "Food Stamp President", and on and on ad nauseum. When people actually paid attention to the Tea Party all they heard was racist nonsense and all they say were pictures of the President of the United States with a bone through his nose. The attacks on the First Lady have been even more despicable. If you do not personally support this campaign by the Right Wing then it is incumbent on you to speak out against it. Your silence constitutes acceptance of racism. So it's up to you.
  • R. ProudPr... 2012/07/06 12:17:50 (edited)
    R.
    " The Cambridge police acted stupidly " and so are you, if you don't
    find the racism here and this merely set the tone.
    PLEASE give us the rev.wright , out of context quote , PLEASE.

    Any questions on that one ?

    Give me a break . They made more nasty comments about Bush, burned
    him in effigy,


    threatened by a serial adulterer who

    had much support from the dimocratic electorate and on and on. Try

    as you may you CANNOT find as much disrespect shown to one president

    that was more than that shown to GWBush.

    The tea party accusations have been proven to have been fabricated

    but we'll just say it was a he said / she said matter ( which it was ) and

    leave it at that. Sticks and stones may break my bones...

    How ironic that you would close by coming eerily close to quoting

    a line used by GWBush ( " either you are with us or against us " ).

    Unfortunately the community organizer( nor his wife ) is not afforded

    special treatment because he is half black , or the first half black to reach

    the white house or because he used hope and change as a slogan to

    get elected. What he is , however , is fair game to the criticisms and

    unfortunately slander , that goes along with being the highest ranking

    elected official in our country. All the others have en...









    " The Cambridge police acted stupidly " and so are you, if you don't
    find the racism here and this merely set the tone.
    PLEASE give us the rev.wright , out of context quote , PLEASE.
    FOOD STAMP INCREASE UNDER OBAMA
    Any questions on that one ?

    Give me a break . They made more nasty comments about Bush, burned
    him in effigy,


    threatened by a serial adulterer who

    had much support from the dimocratic electorate and on and on. Try

    as you may you CANNOT find as much disrespect shown to one president

    that was more than that shown to GWBush.

    The tea party accusations have been proven to have been fabricated

    but we'll just say it was a he said / she said matter ( which it was ) and

    leave it at that. Sticks and stones may break my bones...

    How ironic that you would close by coming eerily close to quoting

    a line used by GWBush ( " either you are with us or against us " ).

    Unfortunately the community organizer( nor his wife ) is not afforded

    special treatment because he is half black , or the first half black to reach

    the white house or because he used hope and change as a slogan to

    get elected. What he is , however , is fair game to the criticisms and

    unfortunately slander , that goes along with being the highest ranking

    elected official in our country. All the others have endured it as will he.

    But for you to attempt to deny those with an unfavorable opinion of

    this president , the right that is covered in the FIRST amendment to

    our constitution , is , well purely liberal progressive, When it comes

    to yelling " racism " , the yeller is more times than not , the feller.

    Your responses exemplify it, so keep talking .
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  • ProudPr... R. 2012/07/07 21:13:57
    ProudProgressive
    The Cambridge Police DID act stupidly, as everyone knows by now. A racist cop decided that black people couldn't possibly live in an affluent neighborhood so he decided to harass a man INSIDE HIS OWN HOME because he believed he must be a burglar even though he had his driver's license with his address IN HIS HAND when he was assaulted. Then the same cop falsified his police report to say that someone had reported "a black man breaking into a house" when no such report was made. President Obama, as always, took the high road and tried to turn the incident into yet another opportunity to bring this nation together, but people like you are unredeeemable.

    As for food stamps, it is people like you who think that only black people are on food stamps, and it is even more moronic to criticize President Obama for more people being on food stamps when most of the increase occurred under Bush. Your own chart shows a steep increase under Bush policies and then a leveling off once President Obama's policies started to kick in. You re so blind that even your own posts prove your ignorance.

    As for the video, in classic Breitbart style you've completely ignored what he actually said. According to you, Edwards (who had AN affair, is not a serial adulterer, and never tried to pick up men in...






    The Cambridge Police DID act stupidly, as everyone knows by now. A racist cop decided that black people couldn't possibly live in an affluent neighborhood so he decided to harass a man INSIDE HIS OWN HOME because he believed he must be a burglar even though he had his driver's license with his address IN HIS HAND when he was assaulted. Then the same cop falsified his police report to say that someone had reported "a black man breaking into a house" when no such report was made. President Obama, as always, took the high road and tried to turn the incident into yet another opportunity to bring this nation together, but people like you are unredeeemable.

    As for food stamps, it is people like you who think that only black people are on food stamps, and it is even more moronic to criticize President Obama for more people being on food stamps when most of the increase occurred under Bush. Your own chart shows a steep increase under Bush policies and then a leveling off once President Obama's policies started to kick in. You re so blind that even your own posts prove your ignorance.

    As for the video, in classic Breitbart style you've completely ignored what he actually said. According to you, Edwards (who had AN affair, is not a serial adulterer, and never tried to pick up men in airport bathrooms or assault underage male Congressional pages like your heroes seem so fond of) said "We're going to hang George Bush and Dick Cheney". Pretty rough stuff, right? Except that what he ACTUALLY said was "We're going to hang George Bush and Dick Cheney around the Republican nominee's neck." Not exactly the same, don't you agree? I swear, if Andrew Breitbart or anyone as depraved and hateful as he was were to write the ten commandments, they would say

    "Thou shalt .... kill"
    "Thou shalt... steal"
    "Thou shalt... have other Gods before me"
    "Thou shalt ... take the Lord's name in vain"

    and so forth.
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  • R. ProudPr... 2012/07/08 00:09:41 (edited)
    R.




    Speaking of depraved and hateful , how about third in line to the
    presidency.

    House Speaker Pelosi Calls Bush "a Total Failure"
    Friday 18 July 2008
    by: Laurie Kellman | The Associated Press
    Washington - President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.

    Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.

    "You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for "challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."

    White House spokeswoman Dana Perino defended Bush.

    "What the president said is a fact - this is the longest a Congress has gone in 20 years without passing a single spending bill, so it's clear that the speaker is feeling some frustration at their inability to do so."

    Pelosi's outb...








    Speaking of depraved and hateful , how about third in line to the
    presidency.

    House Speaker Pelosi Calls Bush "a Total Failure"
    Friday 18 July 2008
    by: Laurie Kellman | The Associated Press
    Washington - President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.

    Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.

    "You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for "challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."

    White House spokeswoman Dana Perino defended Bush.

    "What the president said is a fact - this is the longest a Congress has gone in 20 years without passing a single spending bill, so it's clear that the speaker is feeling some frustration at their inability to do so."

    Pelosi's outburst was a departure. Her usual practice in public has been to call Bush's policies a failure - not his presidency or him, personally. Pelosi's remarks are the latest evidence of the Democrats' throw-caution-to-the-wind approach to Bush in the waning days of a presidency weighed down by an unpopular war and soaring gasoline prices.


    Please attempt to to extract yourself from the president's anal
    orifice long enough to go to the polls on November 6 so I can
    at least have the pleasure of cancelling out your vote.
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  • Roger47 2012/07/04 02:11:29
    Roger47
    +2
    The scary thing is someone spent a lot of money putting this video together. Who will be bankrolling this propaganda?
  • ProudPr... Roger47 2012/07/04 13:35:10
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    There are a lot of stupid people with money in the world. Look at Sarah Palin.
  • Roger47 ProudPr... 2012/07/04 16:12:42
    Roger47
    +1
    Murdoch funds a lot of them, doesn't he?
  • ProudPr... Roger47 2012/07/04 18:22:04
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    LOL he facilitates them. He and Roger Ailes created Fox as a means of spreading conservative misinformation and propaganda in the guise of a "news" network. They created it in the first place to get around campaign finance laws so that they could attack Bill Clinton in his re-election campaign. The station launched on October 7, 1996, a month before election day. They PAID cable companies to carry the channel (the complete opposite of industry custom), sometimes up to $11 per subscriber. And it did not show a penny in profit for years. Even today Fox charges cable companies way below what they could to carry the station, with the result that the people at the low end economically who can only afford the most basic cable package do get Fox, but if they want to hear any other voice, like MSNBC or CNN, they have to be on a higher "tier". Go into any hotel, restaurant, etc. in the midwest and Fox is the only cable "news" station they can get.

    Add to that the fact that Murdoch controls various of the raggiest newspapers in the country, like the New York Post, and he can even reach the few who don't watch television with the same bullsh*t.
  • Sinpac 2012/07/04 01:54:27
    Sinpac
    +2
    I wish he would have stay home making pizza. Geez how many guys can one man indorse?
  • ProudPr... Sinpac 2012/07/04 13:35:37
    ProudProgressive
    +2
    It wasn't very good pizza in the first place.
  • Sinpac ProudPr... 2012/07/04 13:50:37
    Sinpac
    +1
    I think it was better pizza before he took over. Something about cheese that doesn't brown throws up red flags for me. I guess He had to take short cuts that wht you only find them in gas stations now.
  • Schläue~© 2012/07/04 01:34:27
    Schläue~©
    +1
    I'm not sure how that sets race relations back at all much less twenty years.
    In fact it pales on light years compared to what has taken place in DC since Jan. 2009.

    PC and the non-stop overplaying of the Race-Ace is what keeps race relations right where LBJ wanted ..... in " I'll have those N*****s voting Democrat for 200 years.

    How is it offensive for a black comedian to be doing a quick flash-back to what was done as entertainment decades ago? To ignore history is to make it go away?

    This is the same mentality that people have towards the Stars & Bars or the 'flag of the south'. People forget that those who wore that other colored uniform were Americans too .... those who wanted to preserve state's rights and regulate their own state as the Constitution allowed.

    Why is it that the founders chose to put the word 'state' in the title of our nation?
    Have you ever noticed that all other countries are referred to as 'states'?

    We were named the United STATES of America for a reason. We cannot change history. But as long as the progressive-librul-LWNJ's feel it necessary to keep racism in the spotlight, the USA will always remain 10 steps behind.
  • ProudPr... Schläue~© 2012/07/04 13:45:38
    ProudProgressive
    +2
    You're right about "what has taken place in DC since Jan 2009". The election of a black President energized the racists among the Right Wing like nothing else. Despite accomplishing more positive progress for this nation that almost all of his predecessors, all you do is attack him no matter what the issue and no matter how your position damages you personally.

    LBJ never said that. What LBJ DID say, presciently, was that when he signed the Civil Rights Act the Democrats would "lose the South for a generation". And he was right. The signing of the Civil Rights Act, which you folks are STILL trying to repeal, drove the racists out of the Democratic Party and into the waiting arms of the Republicans, where they have not only taken root but are now the core of the party.

    LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act also gave birth to the "Southern strategy" that Nixon used in 1968 and every Republican since has tried to repeat - let the public know you're a racist, and the votes you'll lose from black voters will be more than offset by the number of racist votes you gain. It worked in five of the next six elections (the only exception being Gerald Ford, who only lost because he pardoned Nixon), but then when Clinton came along and energized black voters, the Republicans had to add ...

    You're right about "what has taken place in DC since Jan 2009". The election of a black President energized the racists among the Right Wing like nothing else. Despite accomplishing more positive progress for this nation that almost all of his predecessors, all you do is attack him no matter what the issue and no matter how your position damages you personally.

    LBJ never said that. What LBJ DID say, presciently, was that when he signed the Civil Rights Act the Democrats would "lose the South for a generation". And he was right. The signing of the Civil Rights Act, which you folks are STILL trying to repeal, drove the racists out of the Democratic Party and into the waiting arms of the Republicans, where they have not only taken root but are now the core of the party.

    LBJ's signing of the Civil Rights Act also gave birth to the "Southern strategy" that Nixon used in 1968 and every Republican since has tried to repeat - let the public know you're a racist, and the votes you'll lose from black voters will be more than offset by the number of racist votes you gain. It worked in five of the next six elections (the only exception being Gerald Ford, who only lost because he pardoned Nixon), but then when Clinton came along and energized black voters, the Republicans had to add voter suppression and ballot manipulation - hence George Bush.

    Finally, the attempt to rewrite the history of the Civil War is a little pathetic at this point. The South started the civil war and tried to secede in direct violation of the Constitution for one reason - to preserve their right to own other human beings. It was only about one states' right - the "right" to own slaves.
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  • Schläue~© ProudPr... 2012/07/04 14:18:39 (edited)
    Schläue~©
    No dice
    0bozo was anointed by special interests that have been grooming him for years to supposedly hit cleanup after Gore. Given the fact that FMD is his biological father, he's Mulatto.
    He enjoyed a 65% approval rating on day one so there went your racist argument, right out the window.
    He took the opportunity of a century and miserably blew it out his ass.... although he did it on purpose.

    LBJ hijacked Eisenhower's civil rights policy while he was the Senate majority leader. He allowed certain aspects to make it through Congress but was certain the DNC would give him the nomination in 1960 and wanted the brass ring for himself . We all know that didn't happen so he aided the many others who wanted JFK gone.
    Yes, he did say those words and there were many present who heard him say it.
    That will most likely and hopefully be revealed when his records are unsealed, shortly ... although I'm not quite sure what year that happens.

    We could go back & forth for weeks on the true reasons of the Civil War but the bottom line is that it directly involved state's rights and their ability to govern themselves as the Constitution allowed. There is no clause in the Constitution that prevents secession and any state is free to rescind their decision and do so at any time of their choosing.

    Lincoln...




    &

    &
    No dice
    0bozo was anointed by special interests that have been grooming him for years to supposedly hit cleanup after Gore. Given the fact that FMD is his biological father, he's Mulatto.
    He enjoyed a 65% approval rating on day one so there went your racist argument, right out the window.
    He took the opportunity of a century and miserably blew it out his ass.... although he did it on purpose.

    LBJ hijacked Eisenhower's civil rights policy while he was the Senate majority leader. He allowed certain aspects to make it through Congress but was certain the DNC would give him the nomination in 1960 and wanted the brass ring for himself . We all know that didn't happen so he aided the many others who wanted JFK gone.
    Yes, he did say those words and there were many present who heard him say it.
    That will most likely and hopefully be revealed when his records are unsealed, shortly ... although I'm not quite sure what year that happens.

    We could go back & forth for weeks on the true reasons of the Civil War but the bottom line is that it directly involved state's rights and their ability to govern themselves as the Constitution allowed. There is no clause in the Constitution that prevents secession and any state is free to rescind their decision and do so at any time of their choosing.

    Lincoln wanted the war at all costs and knew by aiding Anderson at Ft. Sumter would provoke the attack he needed. Anderson occupied Sumter because the fort he and troops were at hadn't yet been outfitted with canons. He was given months of warnings and under orders or his own choice decided to stay. Bummer.

    Fact is, Had Lincoln not forced the issue, the USA would have fell in behind other countries who were in the process of abolishing the slave trade or had already done so.
    They had a 600 year head start on us. Instead, he sabotaged the efforts of Congress to avoid a Civil War.

    He's not the great emancipator and hero he's been painted as in the history books. It was Mary Lincoln who coaxed him into writing the proclamation. She is the one who had the relationship with those who were in servitude of one form or another. Contrary to ignored history, there were many in the north who joined in the practice and there were many black slave-owners as well - north & south.

    Lincoln is on record many times stating he didn't feel blacks were equals and knew there would be hell to pay after 1/2 a million brothers, fathers, uncles, & friends were killed. He wanted to relocate newly freed peoples to Central America and repatriate them to Africa.
    He was in communication with the UK in 1863 because they owned the territory now known as the country of Belize. Of course, that never happened but after the war, many did go back to Africa and settled in what is now, Liberia (Liberty)
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  • ProudPr... Schläue~© 2012/07/04 14:49:27
    ProudProgressive
    +1
    I didn't think it was possible, but you've actually become more misinformed in the last ten minutes. President Obama received more votes for President than any man in history. He was not "appointed" by anyone, unlike his predecessor. And the birther racist bullsh*t isn't even worth addressing.

    Lincoln desperately wanted to avoid war. Just as the Right Wing has come up with all these vast conspiracy theories that uneducated people like you buy into without hesitation regarding President Obama (like "he's going to take everyone's guns away"), the Southern secessionists waged a similar campaign against Lincoln ("he's going to free the slaves"). Lincoln NEVER intended to free the slaves. He believed that he lacked the authority to do so under the Constitution, and the only reason he signed the Emancipation Proclamation (which, incidentally, only freed the slaves in states which had seceded) was that he felt it was a legitimate exercise of his war powers as Commander in Chief. He didn't do it because he felt sorry for the slaves (though of course he did), he did it because he felt it would weaken the South's armies by depriving them of labor and forcing many confederate soldiers to go home to take care of their plantations. (And by the way, Mary Lincoln had nothing to do wit...







    I didn't think it was possible, but you've actually become more misinformed in the last ten minutes. President Obama received more votes for President than any man in history. He was not "appointed" by anyone, unlike his predecessor. And the birther racist bullsh*t isn't even worth addressing.

    Lincoln desperately wanted to avoid war. Just as the Right Wing has come up with all these vast conspiracy theories that uneducated people like you buy into without hesitation regarding President Obama (like "he's going to take everyone's guns away"), the Southern secessionists waged a similar campaign against Lincoln ("he's going to free the slaves"). Lincoln NEVER intended to free the slaves. He believed that he lacked the authority to do so under the Constitution, and the only reason he signed the Emancipation Proclamation (which, incidentally, only freed the slaves in states which had seceded) was that he felt it was a legitimate exercise of his war powers as Commander in Chief. He didn't do it because he felt sorry for the slaves (though of course he did), he did it because he felt it would weaken the South's armies by depriving them of labor and forcing many confederate soldiers to go home to take care of their plantations. (And by the way, Mary Lincoln had nothing to do with it. She was more concerned with her wardrobe than slaves.)

    Lincoln gave the orders to defend Fort Sumter because Fort Sumter was the property of the United States government and the state of South Carolina had threatened to take it illegally. The South fired the first shot, and Lincoln had no choice but to defend the nation.

    Lincoln wanted to form a new colony in Africa because he believed that most freed slaves would WANT to return to their mother country. He did not "want" the freed slaves to leave nor did he want them to stay. He wanted them to make the choice for themselves. That's what freedom means.

    And yes, secession is unconstitutional. Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869):

    "When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."
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  • ETpro 2012/07/04 01:27:50 (edited)
    ETpro
    +2
    So that's what all the buzz was about. Yep. Pure Performance Art/Comedy. Well done, Herman. And all those that listen to the joke and sit there like bobble heads nodding when he says "We are not stupid." while the Kock Brothers reach in their back pockets and fleece them -- Yes they are. They are stupid.
  • Q 2012/07/04 01:24:31
  • gocar 2012/07/04 01:23:09
    gocar
    +4
    My other used to say, "Act a little stupid and become a millionair." That seems to be the lesson these days. Like PT said, "There's a sucket born every minute" People like Herman Cain count on that. It was the reason he ran for President -- he had money and wanted to get his name out there to make more. Sarah Palin soon realized that therer was money to be made on the rounds and being a Govenor did not give her fame and fortune. Hence she resigned to go after the big money from the fools who adored her for being ignorant.
  • George Romney 2012/07/04 00:57:00
    George Romney
    +8
    Agree or disagree with the man's politics, but his creepiness levels transcend the party lines and ideological spectrum. He reminds me of "President Camacho" from that movie Idiocracy - you know, the one where Luke Wilson wakes up hundreds of years in the future to a society of morons.
    movie idiocracy luke wilson wakes hundreds years future society morons
  • Daedalus George ... 2012/07/04 01:08:17
    Daedalus
    +1
    How long do you think it is before a complete takeover by the Idiocracy?
  • Sissy Daedalus 2012/07/04 13:45:37
    Sissy
    +1
    There are days Bit, when I think its already happening.
  • Maynard George ... 2012/07/04 12:24:56
    Maynard
    RACIST!!!

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