Posted on 07/13/2016 2:00:30 PM PDT by Innovative
On the grounds of the Old State Capitol where, nearly 160 years ago, Abraham Lincoln held forth on “a house divided,” Hillary Clinton on Wednesday lamented the Party of Lincoln’s transition to the Party of Trump, casting the present moment as an indelible stain on Republican history.
Yet even as she savaged Donald J. Trump as an existential threat to American democracy, a week before Republicans plan to nominate him for president in Cleveland, Mrs. Clinton sought a delicate balancing act of her own.
She waded with care into the thickets of national reckonings over both police violence and violence against the police, hoping to position herself as an unlikely agent of national harmony.
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Of course she is upset with Trump as the R nominee. She could beat anyone else easily -- but beating Trump will be harder or impossible.
And, NY Times journalist, Hillary Clinton is not an “indelible stain” on Democrat history?
What a POS.
The more the CRIMINAL Hillary talks - the more she falls behind.
Reminds me of the scene near the end of Starship Troopers.
“It’s afraid!”
Maybe Trump should do a speech in Selma, Alabama. Remind people of who the Democrats were just under two generations ago. Bull Connor, George Wallace, the KKK and segregation is the Democratic Party’s legacy not ours.
What a stupid, fat, harridan pig. Anyone who votes for this shitweasle needs to have their heads examined.
GOPe did not turn to Donald Trump. Patriots, fed up with eight years of corrupt Congress and Obama, are pushing the corrupt Washington cartel aside by putting their voting muscle behind Trump.
Lol!
That’s the way lots of folks feel. I have Democrat family in NY and NJ who feels the same as we do. They are voting Trump.
I guess Hitlery knows a thing or two about INDELIBLE STAINS. Esp. the kind on blue dresses.
OH noes.... the commie left is concerned
I bet Trump is finished now
Honest Abe
Crooked Hillary
‘nuff said
Not really....they are the party of the KKK, the party that blocked civil rights legislation, the party of that guy in the WH
It wasn’t free. Comey is on the board of directors for HSBC bank, which donated to Clinton Foundation.
For Hillary Clinton to take this stance about the necessity for a President to "uphold and defend" the Constitution is pathetic, given the degree to which she and her husband and their Party have abandoned that Constitution's principles and provisions!
For her to refer to the "land of Lincoln" and to Lincoln himself reminds me of the following Letter written by that great defender of the "principles" of the Constitution:
"In this "all honor to Jefferson" letter, Abraham Lincoln declines an invitation to speak in Boston at a birthday celebration honoring Thomas Jefferson. His letter, however, may have been intended to be read at the event. The letter contains familiar arguments which Lincoln used in speeches during the late 1850s, including an allusion to Euclid. It is loaded with quotable remarks, such as "he would would be no slave, must consent to have no slave." In one of the most thought-provoking passages, Lincoln praises Jefferson's foresight and wisdom evident in his planting an abstract truth in the Declaration of Independence, "applicable to all men and all times."
Springfield, Ills, April 6, 1859Shame on you, Hillary Clinton! Do not use the name of this great man in your dishonest quest to gain power.Messrs. Henry L. Pierce, & others.
Gentlemen
Your kind note inviting me to attend a Festival in Boston, on the 13th. Inst. in honor of the birth-day of Thomas Jefferson, was duly received. My engagements are such that I can not attend.
Bearing in mind that about seventy years ago, two great political parties were first formed in this country, that Thomas Jefferson was the head of one of them, and Boston the head-quarters of the other, it is both curious and interesting that those supposed to descend politically from the party opposed to Jefferson should now be celebrating his birthday in their own original seat of empire, while those claiming political descent from him have nearly ceased to breathe his name everywhere.
Remembering too, that the Jefferson party were formed upon its supposed superior devotion to the personal rights of men, holding the rights of property to be secondary only, and greatly inferior, and then assuming that the so-called democracy of to-day, are the Jefferson, and their opponents, the anti-Jefferson parties, it will be equally interesting to note how completely the two have changed hands as to the principle upon which they were originally supposed to be divided. The democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man's right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.
I remember once being much amused at seeing two partially intoxicated men engage in a fight with their great-coats on, which fight, after a long, and rather harmless contest, ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat, and into that of the other. If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams, they have perfomed the same feat as the two drunken men.
But soberly, it is now no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation.
One would start with great confidence that he could convince any sane child that the simpler propositions of Euclid are true; but, nevertheless, he would fail, utterly, with one who should deny the definitions and axioms. The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
And yet they are denied and evaded, with no small show of success.
One dashingly calls them "glittering generalities"; another bluntly calls them "self evident lies"; and still others insidiously argue that they apply only to "superior races."
These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect--the supplanting the principles of free government, and restoring those of classification, caste, and legitimacy. They would delight a convocation of crowned heads, plotting against the people. They are the van-guard--the miners, and sappers--of returning despotism.
We must repulse them, or they will subjugate us.
This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of re-appearing tyranny and oppression.
Your obedient Servant
A. Lincoln--
I lament that the Democrats are running a criminal for President.
I watched her speech for the first time. And it was so over the top that Karl Rove was defending Trump afterward.
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