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I know what you’re thinking. This must come as quite a shock to the British, right?
Someone should look into this, because we probably owe the Monarch some back-taxes.
Early Americans seen here compromising with the British
Obama: “this country was founded on compromise.” |
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| By: Nathan Aschbacher Wednesday December 8, 2010 11:46 am | |
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Our politicians are cartoonish caricatures of duplicity and stupidity.
LOL at image caption!
:-) Glad you like it.
Hmmm. Let’s see now … there was the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act which further compromised the “Compromise” …
But those and other “Compromises” came later.
You’ve got actual pictures of the initiating “compromise”, Nathan, way cool.
The Endless Compromise on Error … World Compromise I … the compromise to compromise all compromises.
The United States of Compromise!
(We simply MUST change the motto on our coinage!)
Thanks for the Hysterical Perspective, Nathan, the Official Hystery.
;~DW
Nice shot, Nathan. Just watched the video series of John Adams with Paul Giamatti as Adams. Indeed the break with England was a no compromise moment (although there were plenty of factions pushing for it.) The real compromises came of course in the drafting of the Constitution. That’s how we ended up with the fu***** Senate and of course that grandaddy of all compromises- the 3/5 Compromise and the continuation of slavery. NOT GOOD COMPROMISES.
In fact, as GDC707 noted, all those early compromises were meant to protect the institution of slavery!
Not just the American Revolution, but the Civil War, and later the Civil Rights movement, which heavily leaned on both civil disobedience and to a lesser extent the idea of black armed self-defense.
What Obama says is rubbish, historical revisionism.
Obama is half right. Our government is based on compromise…sometimes for the better, sometimes for worse.
What that fool doesn’t understand (or is deliberately ignoring) is that there are times when you CANNOT compromise…. Times that you must fight. The founders knew this.
This is one of those times.
But I sadly believe that we are passed the point of no return with this nation.
That’s hilarious. I’d like to make a “Ken Burns” style spoof commercial promoting a U.S. history spot using that theme.
Hi Nathan, Thanks for a good laugh!
There’s comprise from a string position, and then there’s
“Yes Massa, yo boy will get riiiight to it Massa”
I miss edit,
There’s compromise from a strong position, and then there’s
“Yes Massa, yo boy will get riiiight to it Massa”
Insult intended.
Hmmm…I thought this country was founded on the backs of dead Native Americans…
That’s what Paul Revere was yelling on his ride – Compromise!
Oh, it was. Just two of the more famous compromises was the Sand Creek Compromise of 1864, where approximately 160 peaceful Cheyenne men, women and children at Sand Creek, Colorado, compromised with members of the Colorado Militia, and of course the Compromise of Wounded Knee in 1890, when members of the US 7th Cavalry forcibly compromised 128 Sioux men, women and children in South Dakota.
Another was the Trail of Tears Compromise of 1838 and 1839 (link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html ):
“By 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land east of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties which led to the removal of a slightly larger number. Most members of the five southeastern nations had been relocated west, opening 25 million acres of land to white settlement and to slavery.”
I thought he was referring to black people.
It was the most amazing piece of ‘Uncle Tom Theater’ I have ever seen.