Sherry Darling
New Yorker
Will one of my fellow educators please explain to the board and the POTUS what the freakin Dread Scott case is? How I wish Kerry had nailed him on this!
SD
SD
Sherry Darling said:Will one of my fellow educators please explain to the board and the POTUS what the freakin Dread Scott case is? How I wish Kerry had nailed him on this!
SD
Dreadsox said:My oh my....what in the world did he bring that up for? I am still scratching my head.
deep said:
he is going after the african-american vote
foray said:Do you have links to all, or some, of the transcripts for the debate? I've been looking but all I have found are the veep ones, and I don't have tv. Thanks anyone.
foray
deep said:
he is going after the african-american vote
foray said:Do you have links to all, or some, of the transcripts for the debate? I've been looking but all I have found are the veep ones, and I don't have tv. Thanks anyone.
foray
Se7en said:
all three of the debates are on apple's itunes music store, available as free downloads. you can listen to GW in all his glory..over and over again!
Diane L said:"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."
U2democrat said:
heaven help us!
anitram said:I am unsure why abortion is even brought up in the debates.
It is an issue which is divisive and people's minds are made up one way or another. There is no way on God's green earth I'd ever vote for Bush based on this issue, and I am sure there are people who would never vote for Kerry for similar reasons. There is nothing here except shameless pandering.
Diane L said:Sherry,
Dailykos.com has a diary on its site that discusses this correlation. The diarist says that if you Google the terms "Dred Scott" and "abortion," you get the links for anti-abortion websites that have linked the two.
Here is one of the explanations from such a site as reprinted by the dailykos.com diarist:
"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."
You can find the full diary at www.dailykos.com It is to the right of the home page, listed under Recent Diaries.
Diane L.
U2democrat said:The main reason I am pro-choice is because if it were to become illegal again, women would STILL get back-alley illegal abortions. this not only would destroy the fetus, but the woman's life would also be in great danger. women who get abortions today seem to me would be desperate to get an illegal abortion, which is SO deadly. i have conflicts with myself over this issue, but the safety for the woman is my main concern.