The presidentās speech at a South Carolina church did not go over well with the GOP candidate.
Joe Biden gave a speech in South Carolina on Monday, and Nikki Haley isnāt happy about it. Specifically, sheās not happy about the part where the president called her out for her extremely cringeworthy comments about the Civil War, saying, āLet me be clear, for those who donāt seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War.ā
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The issue of the Civil Warāand her commentary on itāhas come up for Haley in the past. While running for governor of South Carolina in 2010, she described the war as a matter of two sides fighting over ātraditionā and āchange,ā adding that the Confederate flag was ānot something that is racist.ā She also claimed there was no reason to take the flag down from the statehouse grounds (until five years later, after the mass shooting at the Charleston church). After Haleyās gaffe in December, Jaime Harrison, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, said that her failure to mention slavery was ānot stunning if you were a Black resident in SC when she was Governor.ā
The ātraditionā of the Confederacy lasted five years.
The Obama administration lasted eight years.
The Obama administration is more a part of their tradition and heritage than the Confederacy.
Also: Obamaās tenure only ended because of term limits. The ātradition and heritageā of the Confederacy ended in defeat at the hand of the United States.
Iāve been thinking about this recently. Reagan would have had a third term. Clinton would still get elected and likely have a third term as well because the recession that got Bush Sr. would have got Reagan. Thereās a good chance we donāt defund counter terror in the FBI and we actually catch the 9/11 terrorists. So Clinton probably stays in office until the 2008 start of the housing crisis. At this point party fatigue usually sets in so Obama would likely lose to McCain. But thatās okay because he was probably the safest GOP choice in the last 50 years. Still GOP policies would have done him in by 2016, at which point Obama v Hillary plays out and we get Obama as our current president. Trump forever remains a footnote as he tried to run against McCain in 2016 and McCain obliterated Trumpās ego in the way only the military can.
Goddamn it Iām already fed up with our reality, I didnāt need to read about an amazing alternative history where Iraq never happened and I probably joined the military to get an education and technical training!
Instead we got Bush, and I could smell the fraudulent stink of Iraq even as a stupid 17 year oldā¦
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Oh yeah. Me too. But FDR scared the oligarchs and we couldnāt have that.