Thursday, September 25, 2014

Gleaning Facebook: Let's Make a Deal

 Clinton is right. Without compromise (deal-making) there would have been no Constitution. We are suffering from a sick political environment where moderates are virtually extinct. We need moderates like Michelle Nunn, Kay Hagen, Alison Lundergren Grimes, and Mary Landrieu in the US Senate. 




George Barton:
One of the deals they made was that if you were a black slave, you were 3/5 of a person.

Terrell Shaw:
And as repulsive as the Three-Fifths Compromise was, it was necessary to the creation of the new nation. These guys found ways to reach agreement. 
(Actually the reality was even worse: the slaves' numbers helped to give the very people who were enslaving them 3/5 more representation than they actually deserved.)

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