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You know, I thought about this thread a bit, and IMHO, as a conservative, we made a much larger blunder many years earlier: Love him or hate him, Gingrich really needed to stay on as speaker, just for the fiscal conservatism, can you imagine how much more manageable the national debt would be if that happened. I honestly think that the GOP establishment assumed Bush would win and needed him to have a blank check when elected, thus Gingrich had to go.
The US has had a few miscalculations and errors in its history, but perhaps the most impulsive, ill conceived action in modern history has been the election of Obama into the White House.
We have a man in the White House with-
no executive experience
dubious far left and communist associates and role models
very little experience at all in politics
questionable work ethic in previous academic jobs
an unknown academic background which is still hidden from the public
a notion that the US is no better than any other nation
a vow to carry out the "dreams of his father" who was a marxist
The world is a more dangerous place due to the power vacuum provided by a weak leader with no effective foreign policy and "red lines" which are crossed and not questioned. The average American is poorer than in any time, other than the Great Depression.
Have we learned our lesson yet?
I didn't read the thread, but no.
While Obama has supported and/or enacted many policies that are detrimental to the country, I'd say the biggest mistake was probably those concentration camps we opened in WWII. Of course, we didn't call them that, but it's what they were.
The US didn't end slavery worldwide. It still exists. Also, slavery was abolished in the British Empire in the 1830's. For how long did the US condone slavery after that (please give the answer in decades)?
"We ended slavery world wide." Sounds like something the scum Palin would say out of ignorance.
Blacks are slaves to the democratic party. nuff said.
Care to explain this one? Not sure how you are connecting Obama to slavery.
He is in office due to affirmative action (white guilt, black entitlement due to our history). He has no experience, and his policies are accelerating the erosion of this country yet he was voted in twice.
There are also more blacks here than there would be had there not been slavery, who essentially all voted for him (admittedly because he's black). Whites have said they voted for him because "it shows how far this nation has come" (guilt).
No one voted for him based on experience or ability to lead the nation, hence we are all paying for it.
He is in office due to affirmative action (white guilt, black entitlement due to our history). He has no experience, and his policies are accelerating the erosion of this country yet he was voted in twice.
There are also more blacks here than there would be had there not been slavery, who essentially all voted for him (admittedly because he's black). Whites have said they voted for him because "it shows how far this nation has come" (guilt).
No one voted for him based on experience or ability to lead the nation, hence we are all paying for it.
If I were a part of the racist herd of blacks who voted for Obama solely because he is black and celebrated him winning the presidency, I would feel pretty betrayed and embarrassed by Obama.
The left submitted a far-left racial empty suit for your "first black president," and 90% of blacks fell for it. From the very beginning, the mainstream media exempted Obama from the usual vetting process of candidates seeking to be president of the United States.
Obama is an example of why you should never promote people to positions in which they are not qualified in order to meet racial or gender quotas.
If I were a part of the racist herd of blacks who voted for Obama solely because he is black and celebrated him winning the presidency, I would feel pretty betrayed and embarrassed by Obama.
The left submitted a far-left racial empty suit for your "first black president," and 90% of blacks fell for it. From the very beginning, the mainstream media exempted Obama from the usual vetting process of candidates seeking to be president of the United States.
Obama is an example of why you should never promote people to positions in which they are not qualified in order to meet racial or gender quotas.
The liberal blacks were voting for Obama no matter what his race was so you should talk to the independent and conservative blacks.
No, America's worst mistake was revolting against the Crown. The revolution set the stage for the USA to become the weird, divided and violent country it has always been. A country where the "Rule of Law" has always been weak, divisions have always run deep and unsolvable. If instead you had evolved into a free and sovereign state then you could have been a country as good as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Since your country was formed by a violent rebellion against authority it will always remain that way.
If there had never been slavery would 95% of black voters vote Democrat?
That is all hypothetical, would that of also made racism disappear?
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