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To: Grand Old Partisan
Those Lincoln quotes ignore the political context, in which he was trying to win elections in a very racist, predominately Democrat Illinois.

So, in your opinion, was Lincoln a principled liar or just an ideological whore?

1,138 posted on 07/02/2003 7:18:07 AM PDT by Gianni (carpe mustalem!)
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To: Gianni
"So, in your opinion, was Lincoln a principled liar or just an ideological whore?"

neither
1,140 posted on 07/02/2003 7:18:40 AM PDT by Grand Old Partisan (You can read about my history of the GOP at www.republicanbasics.com)
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