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Originally Posted by Charlie Southerland
*Fauxcahontas* if you really take time to think about it, isn't a racial epithet at all. Just the opposite. It's calling out someone for pretending to be something they are not. Kind of like the Winter soldiers, Stolen Valor thing to my mind. Just sayin'.
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Actually, Charlie, what it reminds me of is
Barack Obama's birth certificate. Are you seriously demanding that Senator Elizabeth Warren prove that her DNA test results confirm her family stories, before she's allowed to conduct Senate business, such as speaking at a Senate confirmation hearing?
Whether
the Blaze is right or
Snopes.com is right,
the validity of Elizabeth Warren's account of her racial heritage has absolutely no bearing on her duty to express concerns about what an Attorney General nominee's past actions indicate about his commitment to civil rights for all. This was a hearing to assess Sessions's character and competence, not Warren's.
No matter how much you hate her--and don't tell me that under all the personal vitriol you're spewing against the woman, there's a spirit of Christian charity, because the contemptuous name-calling says otherwise--she still has a duty, as a Senator, to express concerns about cabinet appointees. It's part of our system of checks and balances.
I'm surprised that so many people who call themselves conservatives seem opposed to conserving things like our system of checks and balances, and the principle that people should be regarded as innocent until proven guilty (not the other way around). Frankly, it makes me wonder what these conservatives think they are conserving. But I'm pretty sure it's not the honor and integrity of the Cherokee Nation, against impostors.