to be able to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. a, it wasn t a grassroots movement that freed the slaves, as mr. demint describes. it took something called the civil war and 600,000 dead people to do that. remember? and, b, demint attributes the quote that all men are created equal refers to our inalienable writes from the constitution, but those words come from the declaration of independence. he s so wrong on so many accounts he couldn t be any more of an embarrassment. white wash, what most people in new jersey think of the investigation that cleared the government there, chris christie, of wrongdoing in the bridgegate scandal. you re watching hardball, the place for politics.
government. it came from just a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that this was wrong. so no one, no liberal is going to be able to win a debate that big government freed the slaves. a, it wasn t a grassroots movement that freed the slaves, as mr. demint describes. it took something called the civil war and 600,000 dead people to do that. remember? and, b, demint attributes the quote that all men are created equal refers to our inalienable writes from the constitution, but those words come from the declaration of independence. he s so wrong on so many accounts he couldn t be any more of an embarrassment. white wash, what most people in new jersey think of the investigation that cleared the government there, chris christie, of wrong doing in the bridgegate scandal. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. lf of what i.
where it comes from. but i want to start here with a phrase i think is the quintessential american ideal. it s this phrase: all men are created equal. do you believe that? now we can have the argument we ve never really achieved that. i would agree. even in the golden era, i think was the american revolution, we never achieved that. never. we never have. but we tried to. kind of like if you are a christian, you try to be more like jesus every day, but really, have you done it? i haven t. maybe ten minutes a year. i m like yeah, okay, that could have been. the rest of the time i m in trouble. the country is in same way. we need to say is that what we re really all about? should we strive for that? if the answer is yes, we re headed on the wrong track. i ll show you why. i want to you the roots of
where it always leads. where it comes from. but i want to start here with a phrase i think is the quintessential american ideal. it s this phrase: all men are created equal. do you believe that? now we can have the argument we ve never really achieved that. i would agree. even in the golden era, i think was the american revolution, we never achieved that. never. we never have. but we tried to. kind of like if you are a christian, you try to be more like jesus every day, but really, have you done it? i haven t. maybe ten minutes a year. i m like yeah, okay, that could have been. the rest of the time i m in trouble. the country is in same way. we need to say is that what we re really all about? should we strive for that? if the answer is yes, we re headed on the wrong track. i ll show you why.