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RNC slams Obama for criticizing slavery

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Fri May 22, 2009 at 10:44:03 AM PST

From the RNC twitter account comes this gem:

RNC twitter screenshot

As Media Matters tells us, the flaw Obama was pointing to was slavery:

The out of context video the RNC links to contains audio from a September 6, 2001 program called "Slavery and the Constitution" on WBEZ Chicago. On the show, Obama explained that the "fundamental flaw" was "Africans at the time were not considered as part of the polity that was of concern to the framers." In addition, the framers did not "see...it as a moral problem involving persons of moral worth."

Morans.

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