I really am not a grammar **** ,it's the ideas that are more repugnant and important ,but one or two mistakes is a laughable claim but again it's not very important.And as Bodie points out below you make many claims again that really are in sharp contrast to known facts and your posts really are just so much right wing bigoted over the top noise that only would appeal to a very low IQ.Every country and culture has had such types and probably always will.I know for example france has a rich history of great minds and a great history and then there are the bigots like yourself.
You say things like "Is Obama a wasp" for example as though only wasps could be a true american which is a truly un-american notion.We are a melting pot of many people cultures and religions.I am a wasp BTW.
I wonder,do you consider wasps the only true frenchmen?Only a racist bigot would claim the only true american was a wasp, or maybe you might accept others as long as they are white right? Or why else do you talk about Obama being black.Don't answer that we all know why,you are not even good at being covert with your bias,might as well just come out and say what you really mean,most of us get it very clearly.
You have a good memory
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You are right I support the 2nd amendment,my opinion is we might need our guns someday to clean things up here against certain people.I know the other side feels the same way ,and they have guns so I think lefties should as well.
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One of the other things he mis-states is I was an Obama supporter before he was nominated.I originally was for Edwards,then Hillary.
And his reference to Oprah and other blacks really says a lot more about his racial views then it does about the people named.And the people who have chimed in saying to his posts "right on" are just displaying their bias as well.But again as I said earlier in the post all countries and cultures have had such.Racism ,intolerance, ignorance and and hatred and not new or unique.
Debating such people is fruitless though, they really should just be ignored
and marginalized as being beyond the pale of acceptable speech.Call it PC or whatever you like but at some point society's have to draw the line on what is acceptable.And bigotry is one place the line should be drawn.
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I haven't called you an ignorant racist frog lately ,so lighten up.:thefinger
Let me help you with your english grammar here,this should read as follows
I didn't beleive that Obama is a born and bred American since the very beginning.
And you should keep in mind that my opinion of Obama counts just a little more than yours since I am an actual "born and bred" american like Obama.
I'm sure we could write on the head of a pin what I know about france as compared to you,and the case is even more so when we compare our knowledge of the USA between us.As to this issue of Obama's approval rating it really says more about the american people then it does Obama.We live in a society who expects politicians to be santa claus and to provide instant painless solutions.
Ok let me reply you politely.but strongly.
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Ratified in 1788, the US Constitution serves as the supreme law in organizing the government; the Supreme Court is responsible for upholding Constitutional law. Many forms of social progress started in the nineteenth century; those advancements have been widely reflected in the Constitution. Slavery was abolished in 1865 by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; the following Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments respectively guaranteed citizenship for all persons naturalized within US territory and voting for people of all races. In later decades, civil rights were extended to women and African-Americans, following effective lobbying from social activists. The Nineteenth Amendment prohibited gender discrimination in voting rights, later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial segregation in public places.
The Thirteen Colonies began a rebellion against British rule in 1775 and proclaimed their independence in 1776. They subsequently constituted the first thirteen states of the United States of America, which became a nation state in 1781 with the ratification of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The 1783 Treaty of Paris represented the Kingdom of Great Britain's formal acknowledgement of the United States as an independent nation. The United States defeated Britain with help from France, the United Provinces and Spain in the American Revolutionary War. The colonists' victory at Saratoga in 1777 led the French into an open alliance with the United States. It is a matter of debate which state was the first to recognize the United States, but the claim extends to the Republic of Ragusa (now the city of Dubrovnik)in Croatia, the Netherlands and Morocco.
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Trumbull's Declaration of IndependenceSide by side with the states' efforts to gain independence through armed resistance, a political union was being developed and agreed upon by them. The first step was to formally declare independence from Great Britain. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, still meeting in Philadelphia, declared the independence of "the United States of America" in the Declaration of Independence. Although the states were still independent entities and not yet formally bound in a legal union, July 4 is celebrated as the nation's birthday. The new nation was dedicated to principles of republicanism, which emphasized civic duty and a fear of corruption and hereditary aristocracy.
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There were some slave rebellions – including by Gabriel Prosser (1800), Denmark Vesey (1822), and Nat Turner (1831) – but they all failed and led to tighter slave oversight in the south.After Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 Election, eleven Southern states seceded from the union between late 1860 and 1861, establishing a new government, the Confederate States of America, on February 8, 1861.The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate ****** attacked a US military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.Along with the northwestern portion of Virginia, four of the five northernmost "slave states" did not secede and became known as the Border States. In response to this, on April 15, Lincoln called on the states to send detachments totaling 75,000 troops to recapture forts, protect the capital, and "preserve the Union", which in his view still existed intact despite the actions of the seceding states. The two armies had their first major clash at the First Battle of Bull Run, which ended in a surprising Union defeat, but, more importantly, proved to both the Union and Confederacy that the war was going be much more longer and bloodier than they had originally anticipated. The war soon divided into two theaters, the Eastern and Western theaters. In the western theater, the Union was quite successful, with major battles, such as Perryville ending up being strategic Union victories, destroying major confederate operations. Things in the East, however, were not as successful. Many of the Union armies (most notably the Army of the Potomac) ended up having commanders who had serious flaws in them example- George B. McClellan always overestimating the size of the enemy) while Confederate commanders (the most famous being Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson) were most of the time master strategists who utilized their available resources to their advantage. Because of this, the Union ended up losing to the Confederates at often ****** and humiliating battles (Battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville). However, things changed for the Union when North Carolinians under Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew noticed Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. John Buford arriving south of the town of Gettysburg. The resulting three-day Battle of Gettysburg ended up being the bloodiest battle of the Civil War and is considered by many historians to be the turning point of the war.On the following day in the west, Union ****** under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant gained control of the Mississippi River at the Battle of Vicksburg, thereby splitting the Confederacy. At the beginning of 1864, Lincoln made General Grant commander of all Union armies. The following two years of the war ended up being ****** for both sides, with Grant launching a war of attrition against Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
and perhaps should I say that you have a love crush on Obama with FK? Really lame. :lame:I have my very own reasons to dislike Obama.
