Posted by
HvySlpr on Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:34:26 AM
I begrudgingly watched, on
YouTube, the interview(?) of John McCain on
The View, that aired Sept. 12. Before you ask…
yes it was painful.
Not painful for John McCain apparently. Quite the contrary, Senator McCain looked poised, calm, friendly, confident, spry, and was obviously in his element. He was funny and personable and did not let the fact that he was being debated, not interviewed, by four women who couldn’t disagree more with his policies and have, I believe, a genuine dislike for the man, fluster him.
Barbawa Wawa started with a descent question, but of course didn’t let John McCain answer. Truthfully, would you? It is obvious that the Senator from Arizona is more than comfortable in this type of forum (one major reason Obama has refused to debate him in a town hall-type atmosphere) and made Wawa look rude, ignorant, and combative. As a matter of fact, at one point the former journalist basically called Senator McCain a liar.
When discussing the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court, John McCain implied that he would appoint “Strict Constitutionalists.”
“Should I be worried about being a slave…?” asked Whoopi Goldberg.
I’m sorry, what? Hmm? Did I hear that right? A slave? Really, did she just ask that?
Yes, Whoopi is afraid that if John McCain appoints “strict Constitutionalists” to the Supreme Court, that she may be forced into slavery. Yeah, that makes sense. The pessimism of the left has surprised even me in this instance.
No, no softball questions for the Senator, and rightfully so. However John did very well in answering those questions honestly (leading up to this, Hasselbeck asked for his opinion on Roe v. Wade) and did not worry about a negative audience reaction and surely did not soften his views based on the views of the room. That, my friends, is called integrity (Obama, look it up).
I have to admit, that was enough for me. I couldn’t watch anymore, but I would like to express my thoughts on Whoopi’s outlandish statement.
At NO point was slavery constitutional. Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned abolitionist, wrote in, I believe all three of his autobiographies, that the Constitution itself called for the end of slavery. When a man who, firsthand, suffered the injustices and ungodly acts of slavery can come to that conclusion, it is utterly deplorable to see a free, rich, and celebrated black woman, over 100 years later, make a statement to the contrary.
Now, whether the Constitution was strictly followed (as it pertains to slavery) for another eighty-nine years is obvious, but the point is this: we now have a sound bite that explicates how liberals feel about our founding documents. Conservatives have long espoused the view that liberals have a disdain for the Constitution (why else would they want to butcher it with rulings such as Roe v. Wade?) but have always been told that these fears were unfounded and based on scare-tactics and lies.
To say that a return to constitutionalism is a return to slavery is mind-boggling and I hope that people on the left will have the courage to distance themselves, not just from the statement, but also from the idea that our country institutionalized slavery with our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. “That all men are created equal” is a statement of pure beauty, intellect, courage, and boldness that the world hadn’t, and has not since, seen…like it or not.