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Freeloading Rusty

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Trump calls on blacks to ‘honor’ Republicans with votes, then praises Confederate general Robert E. Lee
President Trump praised the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee while asking African American voters to “honor us” by voting Republican at an Ohio rally that featured an unexpected and provocative monologue on America’s Civil War history.

Addressing an open-air rally of around 4,000 supporters, Trump appeared buoyant as he declared that Lee was a “true great fighter” and “great general.” He also said President Abraham Lincoln once had a “phobia” of the Southern general, whose support of slavery has made his legacy a heavily contested and divisive issue.

The comments came during an anecdote about Ohio-born President Ulysses S. Grant’s alleged drinking problems. “So Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He couldn’t beat Robert E. Lee,” Trump said. “Robert E. Lee was winning battle after battle after battle.”

“And Abraham Lincoln came home, he said, ‘I can’t beat Robert E. Lee,’ ” Trump said. “They said to Lincoln, ‘You can’t use him anymore, he’s an alcoholic.’ And Lincoln said, ‘I don’t care if he’s an alcoholic, frankly, give me six or seven more just like him.’ He started to win.”

Minutes earlier, Trump had hailed African American unemployment numbers and asked black voters to “honor us” by voting Republican in November. “Get away from the Democrats,” he told them. “Think of it: We have the best numbers in history. . . . I think we’re going to get the African American vote, and it’s true.” He also celebrated hip-hop artist Kanye West’s visit to the Oval Office on Thursday, adding: “What he did was pretty amazing.”

Trump’s speech threatened to reignite a highly divisive debate over America’s racial history with just weeks to go until the midterms. Trump has previously defended statues commemorating Confederate leaders, tweeting last year: “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.” Critics say such statues glorify historical advocates of slavery.

Grant was not the only Ohio-native whom Trump deployed as a foil in his interventions on sensitive cultural issues. He also referenced astronaut Neil Armstrong, telling crowds: “He’s the man that planted the flag on the face of the moon. . . . There was no kneeling, there was no nothing, there was no games, boom,” in a reference to NFL athletes kneeling in protest during the national anthem.

Trump was in Lebanon to boost the campaign of Rep. Steve Chabot, the incumbent whose 1st Congressional District encompasses the county and who had distanced himself from the president ahead of the event. “We didn’t ask him to come. . . . He wasn’t my first choice or my second or my third,” he told one newspaper, apparently fearful Trump’s rhetoric could prove costly in the competitive race. On the night, however, Chabot appeared content to revel in the president’s support. “God bless the president. And, I never thought I’d say this, but God bless Kanye West,” he said.

Standing before a supersize American flag suspended between two diggers, the president listed his achievements while redoubling his attacks on his traditional opponents in a rally that exceeded an hour. He described Democrats as “the party of the mob,” and said of the media: “We’ve learned how to live with them. We don’t like it, but we’ve learned.”

Supporters gleefully chanted, “Trump! Trump! Trump!” and, “Ka-va-naugh! Ka-va-naugh!” during the event, while booing in reference to the media and Democratic politicians, whom Trump accused of trying to stymie the Supreme Court nomination of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

At the outset of his speech, Trump celebrated the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson from house arrest in Turkey, telling supporters at the rally: “He went through a lot, but he’s on his way back” — but sidestepping the suspected killing of a Saudi journalist amid growing pressure on the White House to address the diplomatic crisis.

“I’m really proud to report that earlier today we secured the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkey,” he declared to rapturous applause in Ohio as a plane transporting the evangelical leader from Istanbul landed in Germany. “I think he’s going to be in great shape. . . . We bring a lot of people back, and that’s good.”

He earlier told reporters in Cincinnati that there had been “no deal” to secure the pastor’s release. The president had been less vocal on the suspected murder of the Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, although he said he would raise it with his Saudi counterpart King Salman. “I will be calling at some point,” he added, before pivoting to the threat posed by Iran.

Trump also praised Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, a GOP gubernatorial candidate who is seeking to replace the term-bound Trump-critic Gov. John Kasich. He faces Democrat Richard Cordray, an Obama administration official who served as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “He was hurting people and I think he enjoyed it,” said Trump of Cordray’s time in office. “No really, I think he enjoyed it.”

The rally took place in Warren County, a GOP fortress where Trump more than doubled Hillary Clinton’s tally in the 2016 election and that has not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in over half a century.

It marked Trump’s fifth visit as candidate or president to greater Cincinnati, a city that has a spot in Trump lore as the place where he spent high school summers working for his father’s business. “The Art of the Deal” includes a chapter, “The Cincinnati Kid,” in which Trump claims credit for spotting investment opportunities in the city. “I love it,” he later said. “I worked here, I was was here, I lived here.”
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Freeloading Rusty

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Mike Pence’s wife is backing a candidate who wants to jail gay people
Vice President Mike Pence’s wife Karen Pence travelled to North Carolina to campaign for a GOP candidate who thinks things were better when gay sex was a crime.


On Monday, the Second Lady of the United States travelled to the state to stump for GOP candidate Mark Harris, an evangelical pastor with extreme anti-LGBT views.

Harris, who is running for the US House of Representatives in North Carolina’s 9th District, has lamented the “moral decay” of the United States going from the criminalisation of homosexuality to the so-called “criminalisation of Christianity.”


Speaking in 2015, he claimed: “We have watched in one generation where homosexuality was once criminalised to now we see the criminalisation of Christianity. And I could go on and on with the entertainment, with the education, with the life issue.”

Right Wing Watch reports that the candidate is a member of the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Wall network. The Family Research Council is a listed anti-LGBT hate group whose leader has been condemned for comparing gay people to Nazis.



But despite Harris’ extreme anti-LGBT beliefs, Karen Pence spoke at a Women for Mark Harris rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday.


Pence told the rally: “Mike and I support Mark Harris for Congress. I’m here because this race is so important.
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Georgia GOP governor candidate sued, accused of preventing minority voter registration
Civil rights organizations have filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, accusing his office of preventing minority voters from registering ahead of next month's closely watched race.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Atlanta, targets Georgia's "exact match" verification process, which requires that information on voter applications precisely match information already on file with the Georgia Department of Driver Services or the Social Security Administration.

The lawsuit comes days after an analysis by The Associated Press found over 53,000 voter registration applications sitting in pending status. Georgia's population is approximately 32 percent black, according to the U.S. Census, but the list of voter registrations on hold with Kemp's office is nearly 70 percent black.

Kemp, who is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia, is facing Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is vying to become the nation's black female governor. Recent public polling indicates the race is a dead heat.

Abrams' campaign has called on Kemp to step down as Secretary of State, saying his run for governor creates a conflict of interest with his role overseeing elections.

Kemp's office has blamed the racial disparity on the New Georgia Project, a voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2013. It says the organization was sloppy in registering voters, and says they submitted inadequate forms for a batch of applicants that was predominantly black.

An entry error or a dropped hyphen in a last name can cause an application to be placed on hold.

The lawsuit said the "exact-match" policy "disproportionately and negatively impact the ability of voting-eligible African-American, Latino and Asian-American applicants to register to vote."

Candice Broce, a spokeswoman for Kemp's office, called the lawsuit "bogus" and "a complete waste of our time and taxpayer dollars."

The lawsuit was brought by several groups including the Georgia state chapter of the NAACP, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.

Voters whose applications are frozen in "pending" status have 26 months to fix any issues before their application is canceled. They can still cast a provisional ballot.
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KWingJitsu

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Hauler said:
Do some reading.
Educate yourself on the man.

If he knew his name would become a symbol of racism and white supremacy, he would not have been happy. That's not what he was about, despite his state allegiance during the Civil War.
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Never figured you to be a Confederate sympathizer. You are embarrassing yourself.
Actually it all makes sense now. The guy who cant do simple math tells me to educate myself.
 
Hauler

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KWingJitsu said:
Never figured you to be a Confederate sympathizer. You are embarrassing yourself.
Actually it all makes sense now. The guy who cant do simple math tells me to educate myself.
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I'm not a Confederate sympathizer.
And neither was Lee.

Do you know who was vocally oposed to statues of Confederate soldiers after the war? Lee.

He was actually very close to joining the side of the Union for the war.

Educate yourself.
 
ConorMcGregor NutHugger

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there are few, I believe, but will acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country. It is useless to expiate on its disadvantages. I think it, however, a greater evil to the white than to the black race, and while my feelings are strongly interested in…the latter, my sympathies are stronger for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and, I hope will prepare and lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known and ordered by a wise and merciful Providence. Robert E Lee.

See they where just looking out for the Black man. And you guys thought he was a racist.
 
Leigh

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Hauler @Hauler & KWingJitsu @KWingJitsu please refrain from personal attacks.

Hauler said:
Do some reading.
Educate yourself on the man.

If he knew his name would become a symbol of racism and white supremacy, he would not have been happy. That's not what he was about, despite his state allegiance during the Civil War.
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Wikipedia says:

"Lee accepted "the extinction of slavery" provided for by the Thirteenth Amendment, but publicly opposed racial equality and granting African Americans the right to vote and other political rights."

He sounds pretty racist.
 
KWingJitsu

KWingJitsu

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Hauler said:
He started it.
:)
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By quoting an article by Lee's descendant that upset you.
Yup.
Triggered snowflake.


"Trump is supporting an “idol of white supremacy,” said Robert E. Lee IV."
 
Hauler

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KWingJitsu said:
"Trump is supporting an “idol of white supremacy,” said Robert E. Lee IV."
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A misguided idol of white supremacy.

I already said it was stupid of Trump to even mention him. But our president isn't big on tact.
 
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