Hannity ponders the need of a third political party

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 7 months ago to Politics
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the North should have bought all the slaves. total would have been 1/10th the cost-not including property damage and of course you can not put a cost to life.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    this reminds me of a Donway poem:
    "And this was so in Texas, when, like
    bulls
    Whose cows have been attacked, we
    killed the way
    The blue-dressed soldiers had, then took their scalps.
    White women cried, our women laughed
    that day."
    "Ten Bears Speaks At Medicine Lodge Creek,"
    How Glad I Am for Man Tonight, Walter Donway
    http://www.amazon.com/How-Glad-Man-Tonig...
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Again, would the US have been in a position to oppose Hitler if it were 2 countries. Letting the confederacy go may have simply delayed the war. No good options and no one could have predicted the length and brutality that ultimately occurred.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Saw the post. Have four of my own so, *yawn* I see this every day and I couldn't gin up a lot of captions. Some of the comments I read were good but I just skipped around and it never hit the cat's name was Charlie. Sorry, Charlie.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They're the cheaper version, but just as bad. Like a beast light, (Milwaukee's Best), }-p
    They really are the worst. No firm footing, wishy washy no convictions don't know if I wanna be's.
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  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He was pro unions, stood by while socialism took a foothold in Europe, the whole prelude to WWI. He was FDR's model, just in bite size.
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  • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    He had one option... let the Confederacy go free. Instead he unleashed Sheridan's Total War policy on the Confederacy, which gained victory and gave tactics to be repeated in the Plains Indians wars.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, I know how bad Carter was; I lived through his depression. Once upon a time I fantasized about the day I could piss on his grave.

    Yes, enslaving productive individuals can't be done w/o government grandstanding. A young generation cannot be decimated horribly and pointlessly without government grandstanding.

    Wilson put the progressive ball in motion. His bullying of SCOTUS, with Holmes' atrocious decision regarding the 1st Amendment set the stage for every governmental abuse of power since.

    Who says we would never have gone to the moon without Wilson? He laid down the foundation for NASA... who laid down the foundation for the Wright Flyer, hm? Who laid down the foundation for the Spirit of St Louis?

    And what happened? We rushed to the moon, masturbated over achieving the liberal demigod JFK's "dream", and let our conquest of space fall to pieces.

    NASA... the Moslem outreach organization that gave us the space shuttle.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don’t know, Hiragahm. Carter was really. really bad in every category across the board. I don’t share your sentiments on Wilson. I just find his interest with the new technologies of the era propelled us to reach in new directions as a nation. I admire the fact he was futuristic in his vision. Some things just can’t be done without government grandstanding. We would have never gone to the moon without Wilson.He laid down the foundation for NASA. Now, monetary policies....I’m ignorant. perhaps you can explain how Wilson did so much damage?
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  • Posted by richrobinson 11 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Secession was baked in when Lincoln won the presidency. He inherited the failures of many presidents and was left with few options. Hard to imagine what would have happened in WWII had the US been two separate countries. Interesting perspective but not sure what options he had.
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  • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    600,000 unnecessarily dead men, wounds that still aren't healed a century and a half later, and the end of the Republic as it was designed to be, denigrating the States to being mere provinces rather than sovereign member republics with the same rights the original colonies asserted in the DoI.

    LBJ was bad, but his evils weren't as bad as Wilson's, whose abuses reverberate to this day. LBJ is on my list, just not in the top 5.
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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 7 months ago
    I looked up political parties at Wiki, and I noticed an interesting fact. Whatever party is in the White House increases the likelihood of oppositional third parties. The numbers don’t lie. During the Reagan years there were many socialist parties organized. During the Clinton years, there were many religious right-wing groups organized. Scroll down the page to find the proper table.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pol......

    This also reaffirms my believe the bulk of the explosion of the religious right occurred after Reagan’s administration. That’s not what they are teaching in college. The academia world teaches Reagan rose to power through the strength of the religious right’s strong arm. That faction barely existed politically from what I remember. Revisited history nonsense, I guess.
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