Why Dred Scott? Read this! Important!

[baltodemvet]

To his base, Bush's Dred Scott reference has sp
http://fairshot.typepad.com/fairshot/2004/10/dred_scott_roe_.html

[XanaDUer]

1. When he started blibbering on about that

well, the Scott decision was not a civil rights' issue, as far as I understand it-it was a property-rights' issue.

That was one of the more surreal (among many moments) moments last night.

[flowomo]

2. thank you very much....

that was informative!

[Minimus]

3. Okay, that is just too scary. Thanks for posting-

I will definitely begin passing this around.

[fairfaxvadem]

4. That is just bizarre.

Okay, 2 things are bizarre:

1, the connection between Rove and Dred in the minds of anti-choicers is just incredible on its face,

2, do we believe that GWB really understands the angle or does he have just enough info to "make the argument" but if he were questioned further, could he explain this?

I'd like to see that...

[sundancekid]

8. the Dred-Rove CODE is well established ... see this link

take a look at their twisted-sister logic from the National Right to Life website ... (and ALL RWnuts know this CODE language)!!!!!

http://www.nrlc.org/news/1999/NRL699/slave.html

~snip~
Court Blunders on Slavery and Abortion

One of the more frequently used arguments to defend abortion goes like this: The United States Supreme has settled the issue. Because the Court has ruled that abortion is legal, it must therefore be a correct and moral act beyond challenge.

In an 1857 court case, known as the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves, even freed slaves, and all their descendants, had no rights protected by the Constitution and that states had no right to abolish slavery. Where would Blacks be today if that reasoning had not been challenged?

The reasoning in Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade is nearly identical. In both cases the Court stripped all rights from a class of human beings and reduced them to nothing more than the property of others. Compare the arguments the Court used to justify slavery and abortion. Clearly, in the Court's eyes, unborn children are now the same "beings of an inferior order" that the justices considered Blacks to be over a century ago.
~snip~

We've got to spread the REAL reason behind smarmysmirk's mention of Dred Scott case -- ANOTHER perfect example of their bait-and-switch -- they want us to be baited with their "compassion" toward injustices of slavery, BUT they plan to SWITCH to justify cheneying with Roe decision.

[fairfaxvadem]

9. Right, gotcha.

I see THEIR argument, albeit extremely nutty, but I'm curious about how W understands it. I'd love to see him try to explain the code language. He gets concepts but always short on details and logic.

Doubt anyone would call him on it though.

[Dark Jedi]

12. What Really Matters!

He might not understand everything, but it doesn't matter anyway. His handlers were able to get this radical message in code out to the base. It is now up to us to get out to the polls come Election Day and defeat these fundamentalist nuts.

[oly]

11. Jack Balkin has a good post on this and probably has much

more in his archives.

http://balkin.blogspot.com

[sundancekid]

14. thank you for this lead ... very good information there

[Career Prole]

5. Holy sh*t!!

Good eye! Thanks for the heads up!

[creeksneakers2]

6. Knowing now he was speaking in code on this....

What did Bush mean by:

"The Constitution of the United States says we're all -- you know, it doesn't say that. It doesn't speak to the equality of America."

?

[zinsky]

7. I Think I KNow What He Was Going to Say.....

Bush was going to say that the Constitution says that "all men are created equal", which is wrong. That line is from the Declaration of Independence.

I, for one, was impressed that he caught himself before he explicitly said it, and thereby racked up another malapropism.

[Carolinian]

10. So that's why Bush loves OB/GYNs!

He's also using the doctors to hang the cost of malpractice insurance costs on trial lawyers.

[depakid]

13. Lol- Brilliant.

"Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their, their love with women all across this country."



Like Bush really cares about women receiving prenatal treatment.