Michael Steele wants to go back to what this county was founded on

[liberal N proud]

REALLY? Does he?

Think about what that would mean for him.

[SharonRB]

1. Really, Michael?

Really?

[saltpoint]

2. I'm still concerned about his quest for "hip-hop Republicans."

It sounds like a bold initiative.

I wonder what it means.

[krispos42]

3. Slave-owning patriarchs? Really?

He does realize he's black, right?

[peekaloo]

4. blankets for the natives?

[formercia]

8. A pox on his house

A fitting end.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. I don't think that much would change for him. And at least he'd get to live in the ''house'' or

closer to it.

[madrchsod]

6. these guys will help him....

[Bluerthanblue]

7. wow.... not smart. He also mentioned the racial 'epitaphs'-

:shrug:

Not his best performance.

poor fool.

[Lost-in-FL]

9. nevermind

:hi: :hi:

[goclark]

10. No, he should go back from wherever he came from

He is such a finished fool.

He is a puppet, pure and simple.

[aaaaaa5a]

11. Michael Steele is an" Uncle Tom." NT

[demtenjeep]

17. no he is not an "Uncle Tom"

If you are meaning the character in Harriot Beecher Stowe's book, Tom was a slave that kept his spiritual side intact despite the circumstance he found himself in. He was promised his freedom and got screwed more than once yet still did his best to honor his word and his work.


Steele is a puke plain and simple

[WhiteTara]

12. i.e., murder and slavery?

[liberal N proud]

13. Well..

The founding fathers allowed slavery to continue.

[WhiteTara]

and the massacre of the first citizens of

the country. Millions were murdered so the "founders" could say they founded the country. History goes to the victor.

[FarCenter]

14. The dregs of the British Isles and East Africa?

At least in the south, the whites were from the lowest classes of the British Isles, including emptying their debtor's and criminal prisons.

Augmented by a black population consisting of people that the African kings were willing to sell into slavery, but who were not of a quality that they had been sold in the first ports of call in South America and the Carribean.

[Naturalist111]

15. Do some deep research

on our founding fathers.

10 yrs after the Revelolution comes a Rebellion!

Shays' Rebellion

Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led the rebels, known as "Shaysites" or "Regulators". Most of Shays' compatriots were poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes. Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or the claiming of property by the government.

Seeking debt relief through the issuance of paper currency and lower taxes, they attempted to prevent the courts from seizing property from indebted farmers by forcing the closure of courts in western Massachusetts. The participants in Shays' Rebellion believed they were acting in the spirit of the Revolution and modeled their tactics after the crowd activities of the 1760s and 1770s, using "liberty poles" and "liberty trees" to symbolize their cause.<1>

The rebellion started on August 29, 1786, and by January 1787, over 1000 Shaysites had been arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787. There was a lack of an institutional response to the uprising, which energized calls to reevaluate the Articles of Confederation and gave strong impetus to the Philadelphia Convention which began in May 17, 1787. Shays' Rebellion produced fears that the Revolution’s democratic impulse had gotten out of hand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays'_Rebellion

Now let me ask you "Does he want to go back to this?". Debtor's prisons and the claiming of property by the government?

[liberal N proud]

16. They do pick and choose the reality they weave

[Fire1]

18. We all know republicans are not the sharpest knives in the

drawer. Did you expect anything different from the likes of Michael Steele?

[LiberalEsto]

19. True.

They seem to idolize the stupidest, most shallow among them -- and that's saying a lot.
Steele is pathetic, but he's just a tool. Look at GW Bush and Sarah Palin. All tools. In my opinion Reagan wasn't exactly sharp either -- he was merely a mouthpiece carefully operated by his handlers. He spent his time napping.
This is why I dread the possibility of a Palin candidacy in 2012. Repukes are stupid enough to elect her.