Statements Related to Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war

• President Obama has kept his campaign promises (4+/2- justifications)
• President Obama has kept his three core promises (4+/0- justifications)
• President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama's actions spurred a 73% increase in lending to small businesses, creating new jobs (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama helped hundreds of thousands of Americans keep their homes (2+/0- justifications)
• President Obama cut taxes for 95% of working families (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has been working to passing health reform that would significantly bolster job growth by getting health insurance costs under control and outlawing health insurance discrimination (e.g., pre-existing conditions, gender) (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has helped the middle class (6+/1- justifications)
• President Obama has closed the executive revolving door, forbidding former administration employees from lobbying when they leave the white house (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has made government more transparent and accountable (5+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world (3+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
• US involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is now as large as the Vietnam war (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has not kept his promise to limit farm subsidies (0+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
• The US did not experience a terrorist attack while Bush II was president (1+/2- justifications)
• David Addington and Alberto Gonzales convinced John Yoo to make up a legal argument that the President could authorize illegal torture (4+/0- justifications)
• President Bush claimed throughout his presidency that he would leave office with a balanced budget (1+/0- justifications)
• Senate Republicans interfered with President Obama's appointee nominations in unprecedented ways (1+/0- justifications)
• Only 12% of americans believe President Obama has decreased taxes (1+/0- justifications)
• President Clinton ordered military strikes against Iraq in 1998 because he believed they possessed WMDs (1+/0- justifications)
• DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
• Senior officials in Bush II's administration (including Vice President Cheney) conspired to torture detainees (1+/0- justifications)
• Vice President Dick Cheney is guilty of conspiring to torture, a US federal criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or death (4+/0- justifications)
• The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
• US unemployment has stopped increasing and has stabilized since Barack Obama became president (1+/0- justifications)
• Job loss may have reached its maximum because of job loss saturation regardless of President Obama's administration's actions (0+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/3- justifications)
• The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery (3+/2- justifications)
• The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union (0+/0- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The world has come close to nuclear war (2+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery (7+/1- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism (0+/1- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Colin Powell declined running for president due to fears of assassination by white supremacists (1+/0- justifications)
• Texas declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Georgia declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Mississippi declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The South Carolina declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession (6+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves (2+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was not economic (1+/0- justifications)
• If the cause of the civil war had only been about economics, whites would not have had a reason to continue racism through Jim Crow laws (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves (0+/0- justifications)
• The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has an unprecendented number of officials (czars) (2+/0- justifications)
• Sarah Palin engages in fearmongering against president Obama (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama has taken the harshest stance of any president in prosecuting unauthorized leaks of information by executive employees (1+/0- justifications)
• In June 2010 the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in U.S. history (1+/0- justifications)
• General McChrystal warned President Bush II's advisors to avoid discussing the cause of Pat Tillman's death in order to avoid revealing the truth that he had died of friendly fire (1+/0- justifications)
• Bush II was the worst president since Warren Harding died in office in 1923 (1+/0- justifications)
• As president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Timothy Geithner supervised Citibank's actions that lead to the largest bailout of any company (1+/0- justifications)
• Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone because he misread a German book (1+/0- justifications)
• In 2004 Germany hosted a BBQ for then U.S. president George W. Bush that cost €8.7M ($11M as of 2010) and hired 12K police officers for security (1+/0- justifications)
• Sarah Palin will announce her candidacy for U.S. president on Sep. 11, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska, at the Den'aina Center, with Glenn Beck (1+/0- justifications)
• Fred Koch might have believed that a black president indicated a communistic takeover of the U.S. government (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama's primary mission for NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reaching out to Muslim nations and helping them to feel good about themselves (1+/0- justifications)
• A black child who was born during slavery was more likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during the twenty-first century (2+/1- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to secretly target minorities (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to target minorities, despite the fact that whites are more likely than blacks to commit drug crimes (3+/0- justifications)
• The civil war was not about tariffs (1+/0- justifications)
• The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• The atomic bomb did not cause Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• A large number of "put options" were placed on United Airlines stock shortly before September 11 (1+/0- justifications)
• Libya increased its oil tariffs shortly before being invaded (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was a Pink person's political response to race riots (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" began the explosion of the U.S. prison population (1+/0- justifications)
• Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy is a liar (5+/0- justifications)