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POSTED: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 7:51 PM

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:49 AM, 04/07/2010

"That he's clueless." . . . . I thought it proved he was a Bolshevik or something. Thanks for clearing that up RG.

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:52 AM, 04/07/2010

"I thought it proved he was a Bolshevik or something." Why would it prove that?

— RG

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:55 AM, 04/07/2010

You know any commies who can name the ChiSox lineup? A hah!

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:59 AM, 04/07/2010

"You know any commies who can name the ChiSox lineup?" No, but I also don't know any commies who claim to be big fans yet can't name one player.

— RG

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:21 AM, 04/07/2010

"No, but I also don't know any commies who claim to be big fans yet can't name one player." . . . . . Clueless indeed. Let's hope he knows the price of gasoline at the pump, eh?

— montani semper liberi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:26 AM, 04/07/2010

"Let's hope he knows the price of gasoline at the pump, eh?" Lets hope he doesnt claim to, only to launch into a rambling narrative when questioned further.

— RG

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:29 AM, 04/07/2010

"No, but I also don't know any commies who claim to be big fans yet can't name one player." I don't really care if he lies about being a baseball fan in order to appear more in touch with Americana...after all, that's what politicians do. I just hope that he knows more about the ChiComs than he does about the ChiSox or the ChiCubs!

— legatus

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:53 AM, 04/07/2010

If how we feel about the President is to be predicated on his knowledge of sporting culture, well... brother man's NCAA bracket was WAY off! Oh, wait a minute... so was pretty much everyone else's. Anyway, I think someone should debunk Mark Glaeser's claim that "Slavery was prevalent in the north as well." Yes, there were a handful of slaves remaining in some northern states due to the terms of their gradual emancipation laws and a larger number in some border states that joined the Union but kept slavery legal. That hardly amounts to "prevalence" unless Glaeser's working with some definition of the word "prevalent" of which I am not yet aware. What WAS prevalent in the North was some very ugly racism; the attitude of most folks was "I don't want those people among us on any terms, not as slaves, not as social equals." Look up the Lombard Street Riots or Pennsylvania Hall to get a glimpse of Philadelphia's history in this regard.

— Billy Ray Winthorpe

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:56 AM, 04/07/2010

"If how we feel about the President is to be predicated on his knowledge of sporting culture," I couldn't care less about his sports knowledge, I just found his pandering and rambling amusing.

— RG

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:12 AM, 04/07/2010

Never was sunny and hot before in April? in any year andy decade?

— Manny Trillo

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:13 AM, 04/07/2010

TPS- that knocking is the Meter reader wanting to get in your mom's basement- let the guy in for God's sake.

— Manny Trillo

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:20 AM, 04/07/2010

Billy Ray - your post at 9:53a about the racism in the north at the time of the War of Northern Aggression is dead on. You can also look at statements made by Lincoln prior to the war which reflect his opinion that Blacks were not in his mind "equals". Yet the north went to war to "free the slaves" according to our history books - how does that make any sense?? Why would a bunch of racist northerners risk their lives to free people they hated? Not to speak for Mark Glaeser but I think that is the point he was making - pretending, as many do, that the purpose of the Civil War was to free the slaves is intellectually dishonest. The North knew the abolution of slavery would destroy the Southern economy - the fact that some in the North did have slaves wasn't a consideration because the Northern economy wasn't as tied to slavery. Even though Britian had abolished slavery 50 years before the U.S., the British would have been happy to trade with the Southern states if it meant cheap raw materials.

— bird11

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:23 AM, 04/07/2010

I have some comments for Billy Ray Winthorpe regarding his statement that "The Confederacy formed in the name of 'states' rights' but the main right those states coveted..." Nonsense. Your view of history is, as is everything leftist, based on revisionist and politically correct notions. The Confederacy was formed in the name of a truly American idea, the idea of national independence. In other words, the states making it up seceded from the Union for the same reasons that the Thirteen Original Colonies seceded from the British Empire. In fact, some Confederates referred to their action as the Revolution of 1860 (the year South Carolina left the Union) because they truly believed they were engaged in the same political work as were those who fought in the Revolutionary War eighty years earlier. As for "states' rights," that was to be part of the political "mechanics" of how many Confederates wanted their new nation to govern itself; it was NOT the motivating political philosophy behind their revolution. In plainer English, the notion of "states rights" was an administrative question -- how to create and maintain the Confederate government. The maintenance of slavery was the primary goal of ONLY a small part of Southern society (the planter elite), namely, those who had a large financial stake in the slave system. Does this clear things up for you, Billy?

— George Tomezsko

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