Anti-Lincoln cartoon, showing the President under attack by copperhead snakes.
Oh, I get it.
The NY Times is saying Obama’s critics are just like Lincoln’s, racist (”sympathetic to slavery”) and unpatriotic. With the 150th of the Emancipation Proclamation this year, get ready for more of this Chicago-style race-baiting crap, another naked attempt to smear anyone who isn’t a leftist.
HOWEVER, the comparison isn’t a good one, because Lincoln did not try to deliberately menace the US economy, especially the energy sector, like Obama has. Lincoln didn’t try to kill coal-mining, or stall oil distribution (Keystone), or attack anyone successful as being suspect, just because they were successful.
Obama HAS done all of that, and more.
Obama is no Lincoln. Remember that this year, amid all the leftist adulation.
Not so subtle suggestion comparing modern-day Conservatives to Copperhead DEMOCRATS during the Civil War. So I guess that Mark Levin is now Clement Vallandigham?
Yeah.
And NOW—the Secretary of State is not only a Copperhead; he’s an ACTUAL TRAITOR—having given assistance and support to our country’s enemies in time of ACTUAL WAR.
Anybody else see a problem, here?
May we all live in “interesting times”.
The Copperheads were Democrats. Democrats acted just like Copperheads with regard to the War on Terror.
The article is generally true. But I would hope that she would also write another one giving the credit that is due the Radical Repulicans - the true abolitionists that pushed Lincoln to making the war about emancipation sooner than he would have on his own.
This is also the story of the civil rights where the so called southern democrats were really republican racists.
I just have to wonder if in the twisted mind of this writer she realizes that it would make more sense to switch her allegiance to the side which she celebrates rather than try to rewrite history.
“They said Lincoln was a tyrant, (check) bent on amassing power (check)and ruining democracy (check).”
Those copperheads were pretty smart. No way they could see Obama in our future, but it was Lincoln, who determined once and for all that the federal government reined supreme, that eventually allowed a dictator be elected.
“They demanded an immediate end to hostilities, believing contrary to all available evidence that the Southern states would return to the Union if only Lincoln would stop the shooting.”
True. Had Lincoln stopped hostilities early on there was a good chance that Southern states would have come back to the union. By 1863...not so much.
The fire in the Union rear was not nearly as great as the one burning in the Confederate rear. And the means Lincoln used to fight his fire was not nearly as heavy-handed as the methods the Confederates used to suppress southern citizens.