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Huh? Lincoln is no hero to progressives. They loathe him.
1 posted on 03/18/2013 8:35:17 AM PDT by chessplayer
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Lincoln was no more racist than the average farmboy from the Midwest... He was however a remarkable tyrant, one of the select few who could successfully preside over a national genocide and come away canonized as a hero.


2 posted on 03/18/2013 8:43:33 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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After all, he was a Republican. Nevertheless, Obama likes to pretend that he’s the ideological heir of Abraham Lincoln.

One thing the author fails to mention is that when Lincoln freed the slaves, he wanted them sent back to Africa after the war. The nation of Liberia in West Africa was founded by emancipated slaves. Their official language is English, the capital is Monrovia (named for James Monroe), and the people have American names for the most part. That’s where Lincoln wanted to send them.


3 posted on 03/18/2013 8:46:14 AM PDT by Bryan
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Then why are you posting this garbage?

I didn't want to say anything about it before ...

... but that logo of Uncle Sam on a latrine is creepy and disturbing.

6 posted on 03/18/2013 10:08:45 AM PDT by x
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To sum it up, Lincoln was an out-and-out racist.

So were Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and just about every other person living at the time, North and South. Nobody alive then could pass muster under the modern definitions of racism.

8 posted on 03/18/2013 11:24:16 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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“Huh? Lincoln is no hero to progressives. They loathe him.”

That’s right. In the progressive mind President Lincoln was racist tyrant who didn’t really want to emancipate the slaves. What an odd article.

How about something on Presidents Wilson or FDR? That might make more sense.


9 posted on 03/18/2013 12:46:19 PM PDT by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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Which is why Zero and co keep comparing him to Lincoln.


11 posted on 03/18/2013 5:11:39 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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