sailingaway
02-02-2011, 10:55 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-rand-paul-20110203,0,5807375.story
In part:
Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, spent much of his brief floor speech, a Senate tradition, discussing the legacy of his famous predecessor, Henry Clay, who served in both the House and the Senate during his nearly 50-year political career. Noting that Clay was known as the Great Compromiser, Paul suggested compromise came at a cost.
"Is compromise the noble position?" he asked, adding that Clay's desire to preserve the unity of the fragile nation in the first half of the 19th century ultimately kept the slave trade alive. His work "ultimately may have invited the war that came," Paul said.
Paul pointed to anti-slavery advocates William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Clay's cousin, Cassius Clay of Kentucky, as political role models, arguing that they refused to compromise their ideals.
The LA Times, of course, takes this as an opportunity to bring up Rand's comments on the Civil Rights act.
Still, I've lived in LA for some time and don't remember seeing the LA Times cover any other Kentucky Senator's 'maiden speech'....
In part:
Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, spent much of his brief floor speech, a Senate tradition, discussing the legacy of his famous predecessor, Henry Clay, who served in both the House and the Senate during his nearly 50-year political career. Noting that Clay was known as the Great Compromiser, Paul suggested compromise came at a cost.
"Is compromise the noble position?" he asked, adding that Clay's desire to preserve the unity of the fragile nation in the first half of the 19th century ultimately kept the slave trade alive. His work "ultimately may have invited the war that came," Paul said.
Paul pointed to anti-slavery advocates William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and Clay's cousin, Cassius Clay of Kentucky, as political role models, arguing that they refused to compromise their ideals.
The LA Times, of course, takes this as an opportunity to bring up Rand's comments on the Civil Rights act.
Still, I've lived in LA for some time and don't remember seeing the LA Times cover any other Kentucky Senator's 'maiden speech'....