Posted on 02/23/2014 6:39:53 PM PST by grumpa
Not sure I agree with this criticism of Lincoln.
Just saying.
I will wait to see what everyone else thinks.
Believe I read somewhere where Obama called himself a Lincoln scholar. Getting pointers, maybe?
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True, but it won’t make a difference. The Lincoln worship in this country is too widespread at this point. Any criticism of him is viewed as crazy talk.
There are legitimate reasons to criticize Lincoln but people who equate him with Obama are unworthy of wasting my time dealing with.
All he cared about was saving the union and he said he didn’t care about slavery.The union was his goal at the expense of states rights.
Well, I understand that southerners have a thing about Lincoln. Without getting into all that, I’ll just say that there is one major difference that deserves emphasis. Lincoln wanted to save the Union. Obama wants to destroy it.
I used to think that Arkansas was the bottom of the barrel when it came to politicians but I have changed my opinion to Illinois.
Lincoln was a progressive. The overriding motivation of all progressives is control.
>> Not sure I agree with this criticism of Lincoln.
Fair enough, but it’s mainly a laundry list of data offered as facts, with a couple of (IMO reasonable) opinions thrown in.
Which of these do you dispute, and why?
every time bammey the boy pulls another sneaky attack, someone always has to pull out some pub somewhere that did something that somebody didn’t like....just to cover their asses....
>> The union was his goal at the expense of states rights.
Thank you for that. Succinct, and important.
I don’t know.
It just seems a bit like a smear.
Maybe I’m wrong. He was a Republican, and held America together through a terrible war.
I would give me a bit of slack. That is just me however.
Your opinion may differ.
BTTT.
‘I really do not want to find out what this man is really made of.’
I’ve heard that he has a caramel center.
Why? How was Lincoln better? Asking for my own edification.
Thank you for setting the records straight on Lincoln. From day one in school he is lionized, but the real truth is never presented and the average American is totally unaware.
I think it is a pile of manure.
One of the biggest errors of anti-Lincoln propaganda is the ignoring of the far greatest abuses carried out by Jefferson Davis.
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