Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better -- Abraham Lincoln, January, 1948
You will take possession by military force of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce ... and prohibit any further publication thereof.... You are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison ... the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforementioned newspapers. -- Abraham Lincoln, May 18, 1864
It was interesting to see Barry invoke the name of Abraham Lincoln, what with the Lincoln trail train ride, the other comparisons to the Great Centralizer; and the press eagerly connects the two as if it were a good thing for Obama. If indeed Barry Obama is going to remind us of Abraham Lincoln, it might be instructive to consider what particular aspects of Lincoln we are supposed to invoke in comparison:
Would it be the Abraham Lincoln who, apparently changing his mind on the concept of secession, arrested the Mayor of Baltimore for his secessionist beliefs?
Would it be the Abraham Lincoln who started an illegal deadly war, one that still can not be easily named?
How about the one who suspends habeus corpus and dismisses enumerated powers in favor of his own idea of a Constitution?
Would it be The Real Abraham Lincoln, the one who established the first American military draft? And confiscated firearms.
The one who nationalized the transportation industry and the money supply?
Sadly, I can picture Barry doing all these things, and can almost guarantee he wouldn't even feel the shame of it, just as Lincoln surely did not. I have my image of the parallels drawn between Obama and Lincoln, but to be sure it casts no favorable light on the 44th president.
2 comments:
Yeah, some of us, particularly Southerner's, know full well the truth about Lincoln's presidency, and are none too impressed.
Let's see, Lincoln, in addition to your points, started a bloody, destructive war that killed almost a million US citizens, and rendered a nation asunder. Mainly in order to pay back special interests (re Northern industrialists and political contributors aka special interests) all the while wrapping the illegal and horrible effort in "humanitarian" or "progressive" concerns about slavery and freedom. So...4 years of absolute destruction and pain, followed by an assassination. Yeah, I wanna be like Lincoln! That's the ticket!
Just thought of another link to the Lincoln era. By the time we are through here, we will probably have 11 states moving to secede from the union.
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