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I don’t get the National Review hate – that might be worth a letter from Joe in and of itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anywayt, Joe Doakes emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know better than to read National Review Online but sometimes I can’t help myself.   The recent article<\/a> about Nikki Haley reminds me why that’s such a dumb thing to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hate ‘gotcha’ questions.  They are inevitably out of context and intended for use in a slanted, partisan media campaign.  For instance (paraphrasing):

Q: What was the cause of the Civil War?

A: It was a dispute about who decides how a state will be run – the federal government or the people living in the state.  

Q: You didn’t mention slavery. 

A: Well, what do you want me to say about slavery?  That wasn’t the cause of the war.  

GOTCHA!!!!

Except she’s right.  Elimination of slavery was not the cause of the war.  We know this from two crucial pieces of history.  You can look it up and should, because almost everything being said today is wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all, if abolishing slavery was the reason for the war, why did four slave states – Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri – fight for the North?  If those states had wanted to abolish slavery in their state, they could have done it any time.  Instead, they joined the Union side to fight against the Secessionist side. Slavery was not the issue.  Secession from the Union was the issue.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second the publicity campaign to make the war about abolition of slavery came with the Emancipation Proclamation, announced long after the war was already going.  It only applied to the states in rebellion – NOT to the slave states in the Union – further evidence that the abolition of slavery was not the reason for starting the war in 1861, but was simply a tactic intended to divert attention from federal government over-reach to a high moral crusade of abolition which would justify Lincoln’s unconstitutional actions during the war.  

The historical evidence supports Haley but you can’t convince anybody of that today.  Slavery is everything and always the most important thing, to Liberals and RINOs alike.  Haley didn’t mention slavery so GOTCHA.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infuriating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes no longer in Como Park<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’m going to stake out one (actually two, given that I don’t get the zing at NR) difference Joe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Secession was the issue”. And what were they seceding about? <\/p>\n\n\n\n