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Posted on YouTube: April 08, 2010
By YouTube Member: tpmtv
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Posted on DU: April 08, 2010
By DU Member: TrollBuster9090
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This is hilarious. The knee jerk response of the GOP and right wing populists to either oppose everything that Obama and the Democrats do (bad OR good), while defending whatever the GOP or Tea Party Patriots do (good or BAD) is a gift that just keeps on giving. I've often said that Obama, Pelosi and Reid should come out and pass a law against eating human excrement (for safety and hygine reasons) just for the fun of watching these lemmings hold massive sh#t eating rallies to protest the big government's attempt to destroy their liberty.
(I'm fully expecting Glenn Beck to do a little blackboard session pointing out that Lincoln's grandfather once built a church with some wood that was cut from a forest that was owned by an ancestor of Saul Alinsky...SO THERE! QED)
In Paul Waldman's 2006 book "Being Right is Not Enough" he outlined the classic fault lines in the Democratic party that the Republicans have been hammering away at for decades (gun control, abortion, flag burning and gay marriage), winning election after election. Then he pointed out that the Republicans have wedge issue fault lines of their own. The biggest one being the Confederate flag and the attitude of the American right wing when it comes to the Civil War. And he postulated that Democrats should take every opportunity to hammer away at that fault line.
Well, here we go, folks. Somebody was bound to take a sledge hammer to the Confederate GOP fault line sooner or later, but I'm just surprised it was McDonnell who did it. I mean, seriously, what the hell was he thinking? That he could appease that part of his base WITHOUT ANYBODY NOTICING?
So here we go. The right wing loons are coming out of the woodwork to defend the Confederate, and downplay slavery. Just look at all the dumbass comments that are popping up all over the internet. (ie-look at the response threads to this TPM video.)
From one faction you get the usual defiant appologetics:
"The Civil War had nothing to do with slavery....blah blah blah..."
"Lincoln didn't give a damn about slaves, it was all about power, not principle...blah blah blah..."
"Slavery was just the after-the-fact excuse. The real reason was big government wanting to take our freedom...blah blah blah..."
"There were slaves in NORTHERN states, too! Why pick on the South...blah blah blah..."
"Hey, EVERYBODY had slaves in those days! You can't take it out of context, it was a normal thing in 1861...blah blah blah..."
"Slavery was all over the place, so why bother mentioning it? But the courage and decency of the Confederate soldiers, that was UNIQUE, and worth honoring...blah blah blah..."
While other factions sputter:
"Yeah, but...but Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN, okay? And the only former KKK member in Congress is a DEMOCRAT..so THERE!"
and
"Hey, I'm a Libertarian, so don't blame ME for all this shit..."
Lovely fault lines.
Let's just see if anything has changed in 140 years, shall we?
1861: "The Civil War wasn't about slavery, so stop playing the race card. It was about States Rights, tyranny, and the Constitution!"
2010: "The Tea Party/Patriot Movement isn't about having a black, liberal Democrat in the White House, so stop playing the race card! It's about States Rights, (liberal, big govt) tyranny, and the Constitution!"
Same sh#t, different a**holes.