Toby Keith calls Barack Obama best Democratic candidate since B...

Peggy wrote:

Guess we put Old Bill in his place. Ha

Bill Smith wrote:

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And how would that be? You can’t even comprehend what you read.

Jane T wrote:

If you want to continue seeing the red white and blue, and the stars and stripes, You really better rethink this!

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Peggy wrote:

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This still doesn't tell me who you propose is the best choice, this country needs help.

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Peggy wrote:

Are you retired? Wouldn't it be hard to lead a normal life? No jobs, food, etc ritht? How would we live? NO law either, scary.

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MarkL5 wrote:

One of the biggest country music stars is endorcing Barack Obama.
Ford-drivin', boot-wearin', flag-wavin', cowboy hat-wearin', guitar-pickin' Toby Freakin' Keith.
Wow!

Bill Smith wrote:

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The only thing that would help this country is complete economic collapse and we start over with no government at all. Voluntary associations will soon follow. Government is the root of all evil. It can never be reformed.

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Why Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican
By Frances Rice
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S's: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860's, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950's and 1960's.
During the civil rights era of the 1960's, Dr. King was fighting the Democrats who stood in the school house doors, turned skin-burning fire hoses on blacks and let loose vicious dogs. It was Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools.
President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Senator Al Gore, Sr. And after he became president, John F. Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph who was a black Republican.
In March of 1968, while referring to Dr. King's leaving Memphis, Tennessee after riots broke out where a teenager was killed, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, called Dr. King a "trouble-maker" who starts trouble, but runs like a coward after trouble is ignited. A few weeks later, Dr. King returned to Memphis and was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Given the circumstances of that era, it is understandable why Dr. King was a Republican. It was the Republicans who fought to free blacks from slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom (13th Amendment), citizenship (14th Amendment) and the right to vote (15th Amendment). Republicans also started the NAACP and affirmative action with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan (crafted by black Republican Art Fletcher) that set the nation's first goals and timetables.