First, I tried to send a birthday card to my longtime friend Gary Racz using the Brooklyn address I have always used in the past. It came back marked "not deliverable as addressed." My only mistake was to spell out "Seventh Ave." instead of writing "7th Ave."
Second, Congresswoman and Tea Party activist Michell Bachman has credited our founding fathers with ending slavery.
I just hope that whatever gods there be--the ones of Mount Olympus, the Judeo-Christian variety, or the Tea Party's imagined Founding Fathers--will see fit to bless America. --EFP
2 comments:
Well, let me ask you a question, Major. Do you think that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution enabled slavery or hastened its end? In other words, would the world (including those enslaved at the time) have been freer or more enslaved had the founding not occurred?
This seems a spurious question. The FFs themselves did not end slavery, nor did their Declaration or Constitution directly hasten its end (quite the contrary, both documents made ample provision for its perpetuation). That the founding of the U.S. created the preconditions for the ultimate extension of liberty (at least hypothetically) to all people doesn't change the fact that the Tea Partier Ed referenced has her history all screwed up.
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