Federal Appeals Court Judges for the D.C. Circuit forgot about the 13th Amendment!

In ruling against President Obama’s “recess appointments” that contradicts 150 years of practice by Republican and Democratic Administrations; Federal Circuit Court Judges; David B. Sentelle, Karen LeCraft Henderson and Thomas B. Griffith must have missed;

 

Abraham Lincoln’s 13^th Amendment to the Constitution!

 

But why should we be surprised?

 

Frederick Douglass gave us the answer on September 25 1883, as to why Republican Legislators would be so unrelenting on President Obama!

    

“Though the colored man is no longer subject to barter and sale, he is surrounded by an adverse settlement which fetters all his movements. In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.

             

If he comes in ignorance, rags and wretchedness he conforms to the popular belief of his character, and in that character he is welcome; but if he shall come as a gentleman, a scholar and a statesman, he is hailed as a contradiction to the national faith concerning his race, and his coming is resented as impudence.” [Frederick Douglass, September 25 1883]

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If Obama Nominated Water, John McCain would oppose, dehydrate and die!

President Obama’s Nomination of Chuck Hagel as the next Secretary of Defense

With each passing day, Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham are becoming less and less relevant and combined with their vehement hate for President Obama; they are doing much damage to America, their respective families and themselves.

                  

John McCain and Chuck Hagel are both decorated Vietnam War Veterans and used to be “bosom buddies,” that is, until Obama Nominated Chuck Hagel to be the next Defense Secretary.

 

A close study of Mr. McCain prior to his defeat in the 2008 election, represented a man who cared about his country; its people; a person who was able to work with the opposition, however, it is self evident that McCain’s loss has sent him bonkers. In 2007, John McCain, Ted Kennedy and former President, George W. Bush came together with sincerity to resolve America’s Immigration problems through Immigration Reform.

 

John McCain is no longer the man he used to be and his insanity has brought out very obvious and sinister peculiarities about the man, and truly, this is a very sad state of affair. But then again that is what “hate” does to people.

As [Boethius] so wisely noted; “There would be no place for hatred among wise men. For who but the foolish would hate good men? Vice is a disease of the mind, just as feebleness shows ill health to the body.”

Chuck Hagel is a good and decent man; a man who when called upon served his country and received; Two Purple Hearts; The Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry; Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Mr. Hagel took the patriotic path as opposed to those that willfully dogged the draft; George W. Bush, Bill Clinton; Donald Rumsfeld; John Bolton; Mitt Romney and so many others.

 

After returning to civilian life Mr. Hagel Co-Founded Vanguard Cellular; served as President of the McCarthy Group and served in the United States Senate from 1997 until he retired in 2008. He is currently a professor at the Edmund W. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

 

The haters on the extreme right and few on the extreme left are misrepresenting Mr. Hagel’s statements with an unrelenting affront that is totally dubious. Two of Mr. Hagel’s remarks are;

 

“The Israeli Government essentially continues to play games…Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that’s where the Palestinians are today.”

 

“I think we should continue to pursue openings with Iran, understanding this is still a nation very hostile to the West.” We need to understand cold, hard realities and be very clear-eyed and clearheaded, but every opening we should take.”

 

After eleven years of war; thousands of our precious men and women in uniform lost their lives; tens of thousands lost their arms or legs or both and in excess of 60,000 in a peculiar mental state of mind, trillions of dollars spent, we need people like Mr. Hagel who ask us to be clear-eyed and clearheaded.

 

It is my distinct opinion that despite all of the “hubris” from McCain and others to deny Mr. Hagel to be the next Defense Secretary, we do have sixty seven sensible Senators that would see the wisdom in President Obama’s Nomination of Mr. Hagel.

 

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