[Mark17]

Did I give you the information you needed about the Philippines?

[jmacusa]

I don’t see the connection. Lincoln was a Republican and Obama is, well, ostensibly a Democrat but in reality he’s a bloody Marxist.

[Republican1795.]

The first one was not a civil war as it was more of a war against regional secession... not a struggle for control over the Capital.

[Democrat_media]

Good article

democrats are for slavery, for making individuals slaves of the government

I’m a Republican so I am for freedom, real human rights like property rights, freedom of speech, right to bear arms etc.

[Democrat_media]

Good article

democrats are for slavery, for making individuals slaves of the government

I’m a Republican so I am for freedom, real human rights like property rights, freedom of speech, right to bear arms, small government etc.

[Fyscat]

A real SitRep. First 22 minutes. Good Stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBWHm0p5ipM#t=569

[Jacquerie]

Which do you want to be?

What is the solution?

[BroJoeK]

From the article: "But as Lincoln observed in his Gettysburg Address, a nation cannot long endure half slave and half free."

Oh, dear me...
You know, FRiends, there was a time, way back in those bad-old stone ages, when even children in public schools were required to memorize some of Lincoln's speeches, and would never-after confuse one with the other...

In Lincoln's 1858 "House Divided" speech in Springfield, Illinois, he said:

" 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."

In Lincoln's 1863 Gettysburg Address he said:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

Now, I hate to be a stickler, but on the other hand, it's not that hard to look these old speeches up, and get them right.

Lincoln, House Divided:
Lincoln, Gettysburg Address: