What would actually make Republicans happy:

[dave123williams]

If Obama was only allowed to be President three fifths of the time.

Sure. It's not about race.

Sure it's not.

(edited for the historically correct ratio :)

[WCGreen]

1. No health care assistance for poor folks....

[gatorboy]

6. Oh, they enjoy their medicare.

Just as long as it's not a government program. :eyes:

[derby378]

2. Don't you mean three-fifths?

Just a little historical perspective...

[dave123williams]

4. Oops :)

Sorry, it's been a while since civics class ;) You got the point.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. If only the Democrats would be more like them!

[Initech]

5. The freepers are like grumpy old men - there's absoluetely nothing that'll make them happy.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. bingo

Being perpetually pissed off is their reason for living. They would hate heaven for being far too wonderful.

[unpossibles]

12. True story!

I find it weird when they complain about Obama continuing Bush policies which they supported...

wtf

[LakeSamish706]

7. If George W. Bush was still in charge, thats what.... And the Republicans controlled...

both houses, thats what.

[11 Bravo]

9. If Michelle Bachmann had a dick and could impregnate their favorite brood sow, Sarah Palin ...

they would be fucking euphoric!

[orleans]

10. if we would all die and they could run wild in the streets. n/t

[KhartoumCharacter]

11. Learn history

What a dumb comment. Do you even know where the 3/5 number comes from? It was the abolitionists who got it reduced to less than one, and for good reason. The slaveowners wants slaves to count as whole, because that gave them greater representation and more votes (the slaves didn't actually get to vote, the owners did: their vote, plus the votes of the slaves). Reducing the representation to 3/5 was a way of limiting the power of the slave states.

If the slaves were counted as whole votes then there would not have even been a debate over the expansion of slavery. All the new states would have been slave states.

[gatorboy]

13. You have the audacity to say someone needs to learn history?

The three-fifths clause is part of Article 1, Section 2 of the original Constitution. As long as it was in force, this provision for a state's representation in the House of Representatives inflated the number of congressmen from slave states.(since none of them actually represented the interests of slaves, considered personal property). The number of congressmen from each state determines the number of electors in the Electoral College, so the extra members of Congress in slave states also affected presidential elections.

It had nothing to do with "votes" and everything to do with population.

"The votes of the slaves"... Are you fucking kidding?


Bigoted idiot.

[DireStrike]

14. You're picking at one misstated word in his entire post

Just "votes" in the last sentence is wrong, but it's obvious what he means. Everything else is correct....