APOLOGIES?  PROBABLY NOT – AT 11:21 A.M. ET:  There are apologies all around.  The Confederate flag is coming down.  People are apologizing for things they never did.  And, of course, the usual suspects are looking with moral fervor at the Republican Party.  Racists!  Bigots!   "Racist, sexist, anti-gay, GOP go away!"

But Scott Johnson at Powerline asks a pertinent question.  When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for its own past? 

In an open letter to DNC Chairman Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz, Jeffrey Lord provides a readout of the tangled history of the Democratic Party with slavery, segregation, lynching, and the Ku Klux Klan. Lord draws on the Democratic Party platforms of 1840, 1844, 1856 and 1860. He adds that, as the Civil War drew to a close, the Democrats opposed the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment (ending slavery), and proceeded afterwards also to oppose the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Lord has more, all in the spirit of the moment; Lord calls on Schultz to apologize on behalf of the party.

Lord might have added that prominent Democrats also opposed the Republican president’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and 1864; they sought Lincoln’s rescission of the proclamation. Lincoln replied: “[T]he promise being made must be kept.”

Lincoln liked the thought so much that he repeated it, with commas the second time around: “[T]he promise, being made, must be kept.” Thank God Lincoln ignored the Democrats.

The Republican Party wasn’t founded until until 1854. In 1856 its first national platform opposed the extension of slavery to the territories and frankly asserted the party’s opposition to the “twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy, and Slavery.” Suffice it to say that it remains timely today.

COMMENT:  The leftist lecturers might also reflect on their own awful human-rights record, from indifference to genocide in Africa, to coddling up to murderous Iran in the Mideast.

Of course, many liberals cut their political teeth on the "anti-war" movement of the 1960s, which wasn't anti-war at all, just anti any war America had a chance of winning.  The effect of their "movement" was to deny to South Vietnam any chance at democracy.

And then there's Obama's opening to Cuba, which was done without asking anything in return on behalf of the enslaved Cuban people.  What a record!   What hypocrites.

June 28,  2015