Posted on 08/17/2011 7:57:36 PM PDT by bobk333
On Monday, during a stop on his supposedly non-campaign bus tour of the Midwest, President Obama made an absurd claim regarding the treatment he received from his political opponents (emphasis added):
“When you listen to what the Federalists said about the Anti-Federalists, and the names that Jefferson called Hamilton and back and forth — I mean those guys were tough,” Obama said. “Lincoln — they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.”
Interestingly, Governor Palin had visited the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum as part of her “One Nation” bus tour just the day before President Obama made this absurd claim, and she has tweeted the following response:
Obama: ”Lincoln--they talked about him almost as bad as they talk about me” Mr. Pres -- tour Lincoln Museum anti-Abe display; try repeating claim
Governor Palin was likely referencing an exhibit in the museum called “The Whispering Gallery”. The museum’s website describes this exhibit:
The Whispering Gallery is a twisted, nightmarish hallway where you will hear brutally unkind things said about Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln during their early months in Washington. On the walls are cruel caricatures and barbed political cartoons that attack the Lincolns.
The charges made by opponents and grotesque caricatures of President Lincoln drawn by political cartoonists during this politically heated time in our nation’s history, as displayed at this museum, would make the political rhetoric of today pale in comparison. The museum curators and planners have made this section of the museum very dim, and the lighting eerily illuminates the reproduced newspaper headlines and cartoons coupled with chilling audio give museum visitors a multi-sensory perspective of what President Lincoln faced.
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Leave Barak alone!!
Mr. Obama, I knew Abe Lincoln. Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine...
The cartoonists were really vicious. They would draw him as a monkey, the Devil and even a cross dresser when he first came into Washington in disguise because of death threats. That is why I think he went lax on his security after that, to the point where he would even walk alone in the street. I think that cartoon really ticked him off.
“All those attacks against Lincoln were from the media the same way Reagan and Bush were attacked in our time. They were pure hate. Obama was never attacked like that.”
Well, I say, ‘let’s get to it’!
He’s a thin skinned wussy....I can’t wait to see Sarah hammer him...we’ve already seen it from Perry and this thin skinned wussy is crying like stuck hog...
The last time I was in DC I went to the house where Lincoln died.
It’s easy to overlook, it’s modest.
At the end of the first floor hallway is the bedroom where he was taken, and where he later died.
I wanted to just stand there all day.
Thankfully Lincoln knew proper grammar so he didn't talk as badly as you do, Jugears.
Second greatest President? Lincoln? Not even close! Ronaldus Magnus is surely second, Jefferson (LA Purchase) third, TR (trustbuster)fourth, Jackson (paid off ALL debt)fifth.
She got it wrong again! She didn’t know that it was called the Whispering Gallery! She thought it was called the anti-Abe display! She’s as dumb as a box of rocks! /sarc
Someone needs to tell Obama if he can’t handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Did Obama come across a document that showed President was able to travel to Martha’s Vineyard more than himself? Is this what he is basing this statement on?
We have a free press. But we don't have independent presses. So long as you don't consider talk radio shows and the Internet "presses", that is . . .
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She always nails the Marxist!
Go Sarah! My money, my prayers and my hopes remain waiting for her announcment, which is coming soon!
lincoln freed the slaves,
comrade obama is creating new slaves
for the democrat plantation.
Ok, now this stuff is just starting to get weird. Two events completely independent of each other puts the Governor in a position to refudiate (ha) with first hand information an outrageous claim made by Obama.
Lincoln preserved the Republic that Obama is destroying with his added debt.
You sure have that right, ken21!!!
She’s running, ya know?
But don’t tell the idiot media or the idiot talking heads, all, or most, of whom continue to ignore her!
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