Posted on 08/11/2008 5:42:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Straight from the mouth of the KKK guy. Hmmmmm.
Did Bobby Byrd write this book while wearing his Grand Kleagle costume? This old gasbag couldn’t write a shopping list at this stage. And please spare me the moral advice from someone who, while an adult, called blacks “gorillas”.
I wouldn’t call Abraham Lincoln a tyrant, but he really had no interest whatsoever in compromising with the South on any issue, even though he knew that it would result in a bloody war.
Yes, let’s add Woodrow Wilson to the list. Wilson was one of the most racist Presidents in our history (his favorite movie was Birth of a Nation).
And our unnecessary entry into the First World War set up the establishment of Communism in Russia and Nazism in Germany.
Of course, Teddy Roosevelt was also demanding that the United States enter World War One.
He didn’t even write the book - it openly credits Steve Kettman as collaborator - because he couldn’t write it.
Disgusting isn’t it?
“Lincoln is however, seen, throughout my 61 years, as the greatest president time and time again. Popularity polls, media, bios, historians, and even some southerners.”
That’s interesting, seeing as he was despised by a great many Northerners, especially newspaper people whose publications were shut down by Lincoln and they themselves arrested. Not to mention the judges who said his actions were unconstitutional, like Supreme Court Chief Justice Taney whose arrest was ordered by Lincoln because he (Taney) said Lincoln had usurped the Consitution. Do you know that Lincoln ordered the arrests of FIVE TIMES the number of detractors as had Mussolini during his tyranny in Italy? Do you know that Lincoln ordered the arrest of the Maryland legislature so they could not vote on secession? No president in American history ever pulled the crap Lincoln did, and yet he is seen as almost godlike.
You opinion of Lincoln is in the small minority of everything I've heard, read, and watched for the last 50 years. I responded to your characterization earlier and I still believe it is woefully inaccurate. By most accounts he's the greatest of our presidents. Washington generally being second and sometimes the order is reversed.
Coming from a senile old racist, I’d take that as a badge of honor.
“I responded to your characterization earlier and I still believe it is woefully inaccurate. By most accounts he’s the greatest of our presidents. Washington generally being second and sometimes the order is reversed.”
That “characterization” is factual. Read some histories of Lincoln by someone other than one of his disciples. I bet you also think the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves (hint: it freed no one. Read it).
You’re setting up straw men trying to guess what I know and don’t know. How about a list of who likes and doesn’t like Lincoln, then I’ll decide if I want to read any more about him. He is the most written about president. Reflecting his greatness, of course.
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