As I am tucked away here in a cozy homeless shelter in Gettysburg, Pa., I was pondering the headline I just read on FOX NEWS ONLINE.
As history would have it ,The proclamation signed by Lincoln in 1863 did not abolish slavery all together. It applied only to states that had rebelled against the Union, leaving slavery legal in the border states during the Civil War. Total abolition of slavery was finalized by the 13th amendment which took effect 3 years later.
Let's compare apples to apples here.
IN the FOX NEWS REPORT,Obama brought up the proclamation, which he says is hanging in the Oval Office, after being asked a question by Mary Wagner, a school teacher in the audience. Wagner explained that she is teaching her students about the two-party governmental system and the importance of compromise. But Wagner asked "[A]re things changing?...Do we not use compromise anymore?"
The president said that Wagner was correct to question it because culture is now pushing against compromise. But "if Abraham Lincoln could make some compromises as part of governance," Obama said, "[T]hen surely we can make some compromises when it comes to handling our budget."
I read this article over and over again and I could not find any correlation between B.H.O.'S mess and the Emancipation Proclamation.
I'm going to supply a link to the FOX NEWS ARTICLE. Let me know if I'm missing something please.
Here it is :
YOURS IN LIBERTY ! ! !
Bob Yeager
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