Reuters: "Spielberg says "Lincoln" is no political football" (Mine: Republican's are pro-slavery?)

Yahoo ^ | 10/10/12 | Christine Kearney

[The G Man]

To audience laughter, Spielberg said he had deliberately sought to avoid such entanglements by asking for a release date after the elections. "Lincoln" is due for limited release November 9 and timed for the Hollywood awards season.

"Don't let this political football play back and forth," the Oscar-winning director said he urged distributors, noting the "confusing" aspect in the film that shows how U.S. political parties back in Lincoln's time "traded political places over the last 150 years."

In contrast to today, the Republican party to which Lincoln belonged was founded by anti-slavery activists and Republicans were often tagged "radicals."

[Norman Bates]

That is one of the most striking and original critiques on abortion I’ve ever come across.

[Sirius Lee]

Replace "Republicans" with "Tea Partiers" and "Slavery" with "Abortion" and history rhymes.

I'm proud to be a radical.

[wideawake]

The core issue is what does the Constitution say? And the Supremacy Clause is one of the less ambiguous passages of the document. It’s kind of odd to demand in 1859 that the federal government send federal agents into private homes in order to recover the putative stolen property of private citizens, and then in 1860 complain that federal agents are entering federal land to recover stolen federal property.