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To: AlanD; erod
The sad thing is, I think there is a LOT of similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.

Not at all. Lincoln always wanted to work within some sort of more-or-less American framework, although a lot more like Hamilton's original idea (proposed as a red herring, actually, to the Philadelphia convention as a debating tactic) of an overly-strong, centralized, almost authoritarian republic (or about what we have today in essence).

Obama is actively working to turn the United States into a totalitarian dictatorship. Worlds apart.

222 posted on 04/19/2010 12:53:54 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Obama hates the United States. Lincoln hated slavery and The South. Lincoln refused to even set foot in the South during his Presidential campaign, just as Obama doesn’t like to spend time in the Red States.

Lincoln thought that God would have to punish the United States for the evil of slavery, Obama thinks that the United States must be punished for its greed (”God Damn America”, “White Man’s Greed over the black man’s need.”)

Both were very self-righteous and polarizing figures.

Most FReepers still don’t get it: The Republican Party was a very left-wing political party until around the the Wilsonian era . .


230 posted on 04/19/2010 1:05:08 PM PDT by AlanD
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