Illegal Protest

Hold the phone people - but new best friend of Barack Obama, Al Gore, has a FATHER who as a Senator, voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So as Drinking with Bob aptly puts it [video]- if Al Gore’s father had his way, Barack Obama would have been picking cotton and sitting in the back of the bus instead of running for President of the United States in 2008. How strange that Barack Obama feels that people like Al Gore are his friend and that he tries to portray Republicans as racists when in fact, the majority of people who voted FOR the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were REPUBLICANS.

I thought this little tidbit was important enough to post on my Illegal Alien Protest site.. because .. frankly, we are in DEEP DO DO if Barack Obama becomes our next President. Not only does he have very little experience in general - he’s only been in the Senate for ONE TERM and most of that term he spent running for President. Do we REALLY want such inexperience in the White House??? Do we really want someone like AL SHARPTON for our next President??? Here is a handy link to his voting record - starting in 2005… According to one tally he has spent 143 DAYS in elected office.

Here are the GOREY details - muahahahah

It is easy to control the minds of a people. All one has to do is change history by lying about the past. This is exactly what has happened with the legacy of former Democratic U.S. Senator Al Gore, Sr. of Tennessee - the father of our current vice president - and his mythical “support” of civil rights.

In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation. Fellow black Americans, let me set history straight. Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act.

In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their “overwhelming majority.” He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party. Moreover, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, an Illinois Republican, collaborated with the White House and the Senate leadership of both parties to draft acceptable compromise amendments to end the southern Democrats’ filibuster of the Act. It was Dirksen who often took to the Senate floor to declare, “This is an idea whose time has come. It will not be denied.” Dirksen’s greatest triumph earned him the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Award, presented by then-NAACP Chairman Roy Wilkins, for his remarkable civil rights leadership.

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A very appropriate video (below) for our most patriotic holiday. Does anyone remember what July 4th actually stands for I wonder? It seems most associate it with fireworks and family barbecues and vacations and the original reason for July 4th has been superseded by the advertising whores of this country. How sad…

Some facts about where our July 4th holiday originated from Wikipedia:

During the American Revolution, the legal separation from Great Britain occured on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia.^[1] After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Declaration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a committee with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the Declaration, finally approving it on July 4. A day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.^[2]

Adams’s prediction was off by two days. From the outset, Americans celebrated independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress.^[3]

One of the most enduring myths about Independence Day is that Congress signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.^[4] The myth had become so firmly established that, decades after the event and nearing the end of their lives, even the elderly Thomas Jefferson and John Adams had come to believe that they and the other delegates had signed the Declaration on the fourth.^[5] Most delegates actually signed the Declaration on August 2, 1776.^[6]