The Smell of Racism: Clinton Wants Lincoln-Douglas Style Debate
Um... Didn't Lincoln and Douglas debate slavery? Is that what this is all about?... Another twisted racist attack by the Clinton's?
Is this some sick stunt where Hillary gets Obama on stage, plays Democrat and defends slavery for 90 minutes?
Sick.
Hillary Clinton wants to challenge Barack Obama to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate.
The AP reported:
Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain.Now... Since Lincoln and Douglas were debating slavery in their seven debates, wouldn't this offer by Hillary be considered racist? Is the NY Times going to jump on this too like they did the Republican North Carolina ad on the racist Rev. Wright?
Clinton took the debate dispute to a new level, challenging Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style.
"Just the two of us, going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions, we'll set whatever rules seem fair," Clinton said while campaigning in South Bend.
And, since both Hillary and Barack are cut and runners on Iraq isn't it going to be hard for one of them to play the role of Republican Abe Lincoln?
This just reeks of racism.
UPDATE: Poor Hillary... Barack Obama says that he will not hold any more debates until after the next primaries. That's weak.
That's a bad move. Obama always makes Hillary look awful when they go one on one.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 4/26/2008 02:37:00 PM
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i have the feeling it's not only going to backfire.. but both hypocritical candidates will have a good old bash the Republicans by any lie necessary fest if it is about "race"..
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
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She should pull out that hoary "debate an empty chair" trick. She could even put a very nice, empty three-piece suit in the chair.
The visual alone should get plenty of air time.
" Obama always makes Hillary look awful when they go one on one."
Well, then you didn't watch the last debate, because Obama lost and lost big, while the Hildabeast did just fine.
Papa Ray
Douglas and Lincoln... does that mean Obambi is a fanatic and Clinton wants to violate the constitution?
Sorry, but I'm not really a fan of Lincoln. He's hyped for no really good reason (much like Stauffenberg in Germany). So he ended slavery? Uhm, yeah, because he needed cannon fodder for his illegal war (ignored the Habeas Corpus, waged war without approval of Congress, oioioi). There's evidence that suggests the the Confederacy would have abolished slavery as well, Lincoln was just faster. That's all there is.
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Takekaze @ 6:33 AM..
Abraham Lincoln
excerpt:
[Domestic Policy
The restoration of the Union was Lincoln's overwhelming priority as president. He directed much of the early strategy in the Civil War and eventually found in Ulysses S. Grant a general he could trust. At the same time, Lincoln made some major changes to government policy that did not pass without resistance. He implemented a military draft that led to riots in New York City in 1863. Financing the war required the creation of the first income tax. Lincoln also suspended habeas corpus in some regions, allowing the government to imprison dissenters without a trial. Most significantly, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and followed that with a push for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.
Foreign Affairs
The major foreign policy question of the day concerned whether major European nations would recognize the Confederacy as a sovereign state. Lincoln delicately handled matters such as the arrest of two Confederate diplomats on the British ship Trent, ordering the prisoners released. European neutrality, however, was primarily ensured by macroeconomic forces: crop failures made Union agriculture a necessary European import, Egypt and India supplied the cotton blocked from the American South, and any loss in textile exports was made up for by the Union's appetite for arms and other manufactured goods. There was no reason for any nation to recognize the Confederacy and risk throwing their rivals into alliance with the Union.
Presidential Politics
Following James Buchanan's feuds with Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party was split in 1860, allowing Lincoln, whose only national service had been as a one-term congressman in the 1840s, to become president as the nominee of the new Republican party. As the Civil War dragged on, he was criticized by both abolitionists and by those who saw no reason to fight for the rights of black people. Lincoln won reelection in 1864, benefiting from recent Union military victories.]
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[There's evidence that suggests the the Confederacy would have abolished slavery as well, Lincoln was just faster. That's all there is.]
really?? if both REPS & DEMS wanted to END SLAVERY then why do suppose there was there a Civil War??
The Racist History of the Democratic Party
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[History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party.
Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it, Republicans gave their lives to ban it.]
Founding Fathers
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