On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> Subject: Embargoed Remarks: "A More Perfect Union"
>> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:10:28 -0400
>> From: Obama For America <me... at barackobama.com>
>> ...the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue
>> for at least twenty more years...
A very odd statement from a sometime professor of constitutional law. The "at least 20 years" pertained only to the *importation* of slaves: the slave trade was protected by the "founders" and over the next 70 years it expanded steadily and was exported wholesale into Mexico (how many Americans know that the Alamo [the piratical Texas "revolution"] was about nothing else but the expansion of slavery in the 1830's into territory where it had been outlawed by Mexican law?) The founders established a constitution under which slaves were tradeable chattels-- property--as Chief Justice Taney infamously, but absolutely correctly, established in the Dredd Scott decision.
Obama's speech was slick, but disgracefully the name of Martin Luther King Jr., and his Riverside Church speech, and the contumacy levelled at him as a result, were passed over in silence. A typical inadequate , leftwing Dumbocratic politician, looking good only in comparison to the Clintons.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos