Governor Palin Calls out President Obama’s Absurd Comparison to President Lincoln

Conservatives4Palin ^ | August 17, 20111 | Whitney Pitcher

[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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[gov_bean_ counter]

I know. Her political instincts are amazing and Obie is sooo predictable. She had a reason for going to the Lincoln museum. I think it was to put some info in her “tool box”. Probably didn't expect to be able to use it so quickly.

[ken21]

bump.

[ken21]

thank you.

i responded to the wrong post.

i was talking to my wife while she was reading the newspaper and both of us were watching fox news.

[onyx]

That doesn’t take away from the truth and wisdom of your comments!

[4woodenboats]

He’s trying to...just a couple million more foreigners that want their “present”....