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MikefromDE Wrote: Nov 07, 2012 2:14 PM

Anom: What are you talking about? The Civil War ended slavery. That is the single biggest advance in civil rights that can be made. And the rise in manumission was not even close to the expansion of slavery and increase in slave population. In terms of human nature, civil rights have moved incredibly fast. In no other culture or time has any race moved from chattel slavery to positions of wealth and power so quickly. Statements like that one make me question your sanity as well as your intellect.

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A Dreadful Media Campaign

Throughout the very long presidential election cycle, two trends remained consistent. The media lauded Obama no matter how horrendous his record, and they savaged Obama's Republican contenders as ridiculous pretenders.

From the start of the Republican race in 2011, every candidate who took the lead took an unfair beating. They even slimed Sarah Palin in case she decided to run. Martin Bashir announced she was "vacuous, crass, and, according to almost every biographer, vindictive, too." Newsweek mocked Michele Bachmann on its cover, making her look pale, confused and nutty, with the headline "The Queen of Rage." Politico and...