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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
Where is the "lie" -- much less the "bald face lie" -- in that sentence?

Right here:

"dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

The newly formed government was clearly not dedicated to this principle. The 13 slave owning states were making no statement on the institution of slavery, and all were reading that verbiage as applying only to white English subjects. There was absolutely no intent to apply this idea to slaves, yet Lincoln is citing it as if that was the only thing our new government was created to accomplish.

Either the man is a moron, or a liar, and if you've read his writings you can clearly see he was no moron, so the only possibility remaining is that he was deliberately trying to deceive people as to the intent of our founders in creating the USA out of 13 slave holding states.

Did that clear it up for you?

17 posted on 11/19/2019 11:23:50 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp


“dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

The newly formed government was clearly not dedicated to this principle.


The Declaration of Independence stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”

Now it took a while to teach certain sections of the country that all men were indeed equal and put into place laws to gve effect to that self-evident truth.


20 posted on 11/19/2019 11:29:14 AM PST by FewsOrange
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To: DiogenesLamp
Where is the "lie" -- much less the "bald face lie" -- in that sentence?

Right here:

"dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

That's absolutely ridiculous. Lincoln was literally quoting the Declaration of Independence -- written and signed "four score and seven years before", that expressly said:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,"

Not only did the men who founded this country make the express claim that "all men are created equal", but they listed it first among all the "self-evident truths".

Your accusation that Lincoln committed a "bald face lie" about the principles on which this country was founded when he was literally quoting verbatim the Declaration itself is the only lie I've seen in this thread.

25 posted on 11/19/2019 11:53:02 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: DiogenesLamp

It’s abundantly clear who the moronic liar is here...


46 posted on 11/20/2019 6:18:23 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: DiogenesLamp

You might want to spend a little more time correcting the misspelling in your tagline before attacking the words of Lincoln of all people.


81 posted on 11/25/2019 12:03:42 PM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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