Bryan
Jacoutot reminds us of why we don’t hear a lot about Obama’s pre-White-House
days, and why Obama is foolish to bring up the past.
“The
President appears intent on focusing attention away from his record in the Oval
Office, and on to Romney’s past. But both candidates have a past…” Read more here
But the
President isn’t the only Democrat who would like us to forget about the past
Some members
of the Cherokee Nation would like us to remember Elizabeth Warren’s past, and
how she benefited from claiming Cherokee ancestry. Then consider her indifference to the ongoing
history of the REAL Cherokees. Read more here
In fact, there’s quite a lot of history to be ashamed of in the
Democrat party
Kevin Williamson offers a detailed discussion of historical
arguments against the popular notion that Democrats are the party of civil
rights. “…the Democrats have been
allowed to rhetorically bury their Bull Connors, their longstanding affiliation
with the Ku Klux Klan, and their pitiless opposition to practically every major
piece of civil-rights legislation for a century. Republicans may not be able to
make significant inroads among black voters in the coming elections, but they
would do well to demolish this myth nonetheless… Indeed, Democrats who argue
that the best policies for black Americans are those that are soft on crime and
generous with welfare are engaged in much the same sort of cynical racial
calculation President Johnson was practicing when he informed skeptical southern
governors that his plan for the Great Society was ‘to have them n***ers voting
Democratic for the next two hundred years.’ Johnson’s crude racism is, happily, largely a
relic of the past, but his strategy endures…” Read more here
The past three years
offer ample reasons why Democrats don’t deserve your vote in 2012, but if you
want more, try going back a bit farther than that.
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