Wellyopolis

October 13, 2004

Dred Scott (again)

Cheery topic, huh? Slavery and abortion!

The LA Times has an interesting follow-up story, where a Bush flack keeps a straight face and says " the president did not intend to draw a parallel between the slavery and abortion cases." Yeah ...

There's much that's galling about this story. One is that the President of the United States who has sworn to uphold the Constitution doesn't know when important clauses were added to it.

Another is that it is the Republican party that now more often abets and benefits from the noxious exploitation of nostalgia for the treasonous, slave-defending Confederacy. And then they want to criticize Dred Scott ... The mind truly boggles at this political application of historical ignorance. Or maybe congitive dissonance!

Posted by robe0419 at October 13, 2004 1:57 PM