His father-in-law was a slave owner. And his platform in the election of 1860 was not abolition, but rather just stopping the spread of slavery. Like he was grandfathering it in for some states. Now I’ve heard and read this wasn’t that he was tolerant of slavery but rather that he didn’t think the federal government was empowered with abolition.Originally Posted by mvp 78
But apparently he also had a good relationship with his father-in-law...
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
The fact that the Guardian published that is rather stunning IMHO
They certainly are way more left or centrist leaning than many other sites, but they sometimes write articles about Dems and "lefties."
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Center/Center-Left
You could get what I wrote off the history channel website dude. It’s not off base at all.
I’m pretty sure he felt the federal government was not empowered. The executive branch was far weaker in those days than it is now.
And you have to wonder if he had run on an abolitionist platform, would he even have been elected. You can’t change something if you don’t win the election. As it was, he got less than 40% of the vote on a 4 way race, although he had a relatively easy electoral college victory.
One has to avoid presentism. Who knows what the people 150 years from now will think of us.
The Yankees could go 0-162 and it wouldn't be enough
Love the freedom loving USA supporting apartheid in Israel. Great job!
He outright said in his letter to Greeley that if could “save the Union” and keep slavery, he would.
Interesting...who is behind these bots?
Nearly Half Of The Twitter Accounts Discussing ‘Reopening America’ May Be Bots
CMU Researchers Say Sophisticated, Orchestrated Bot Campaigns Aim To Sow Divide
Virginia Alvino Young Wednesday, May 20, 2020
CMU researchers have discovered that much of the social media discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.
Scrolling through your Twitter feed, it may not be obvious when you come upon a bot account — something that is more likely to occur in the era of COVID-19. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have discovered that much of the discussion around the pandemic and stay-at-home orders is being fueled by misinformation campaigns that use convincing bots.
To analyze bot activity around the pandemic, CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the top 50 influential retweeters, 82% are bots, they found. Of the top 1,000 retweeters, 62% are bots.
Cuomo is not the only Governor at fault with nursing home policies. The same carnage for the same reasons happened in NJ and MA. I don’t know about Illinois and other states. The politicians take money from the Nursing Homes. The governors then give cover of law and protection against legal liability to the nursing homes by mandating that they admit COVID patients. When the heat got ratcheted up and there were legal loopholes to sue the nursing homes, the governors passed legislation absolving the nursing homes of liability. Disgraceful.
if there is a silver lining to this pandemic it is that at least momentarily that a light is getting shined on the scandalous state run nursing home industry. Hopefully, there will be some needed reforms before this segment of the population is again forgotten and viewed as inconvenient and disposable.
The King of TalkSox has Spoken.
This pandemic has just shown how nearly every politician is beholden to some corporate lobby. If people saw that neither side was inherently “more good” than the other side, we’d all get along better.
Dem lefties on the Sox won't be as good this year without Sale... but at least Boston won't have to watch and listen to Price (only pay him to be a Dodger).
This reminds me of when Epstein shifted Ellsbury's position for Mike Cameron.
Pritzker hasn’t had Cuomo’s nursing home issues, as he’s been towing the CDC guidelines to the letter (as best he has interpreted them). He has his own scandals however...
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