Abraham Lincoln: Republican
Martin Luther King: Republican
Major league a$$h0les both of them. (Links added in quote.)
I read the Epstein's piece about King and it seems that just being a left winger makes one a "major league asshole".
The only things that are left standing there for me is the plagiarazing thing and prostitutes paid with with SCLC bucks, he should not have done it, period. As for others :
"He believed our nation was born in genocide, and claimed that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were meaningless for blacks because they were written by slave owners" - because that is just a blatant lie, right ?
"FBI surveillance showed that King had dozens of extramarital affairs" - well, bring on the tar and feathers.
On Supreme Court's decision to ban school prayer :
"I endorse it. I think it was correct. Contrary to what many have said, it sought to outlaw neither prayer nor belief in god.
In a pluralistic society such as ours, who is to determine what prayer shall be spoken and by whom? Legally, constitutionally or otherwise, the state certainly has no such right" - so wrong, so wrong !
On Reagan :
"When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor, can become a leading war hawk candidate for the presidency, only the irrationalities induced by war psychosis can explain such a turn of events" - again, a disatreous lack of insight.
On economy :
"Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong…with capitalism…" - how on Earth somebody could ever say this ? Every child knows capitalism is god's best creation.
"Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation. This means we must develop a world perspective" - yeah, sounds like a big time douschebag to me.
Edited by chris w, 08 May 2010 - 01:34 PM.