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To: BroJoeK

You haven’t said anything other than call me a Democrat, anti-Trump and a liar - none of which is true.

I have never voted for a Democrat in my 50 years of voting - and I’ve been on the Trump Train since 2015.

I made a statement that Lincoln was owned by the railroad lobby. It is a matter of record that his campaign was heavily financed by railroad tycoons who believed installing a career railroad lawyer (Lincoln) in the White House would help them federalize their transcontinental railway project.

You called me a liar without proof - you are one acting like a deranged Democrat.


11 posted on 02/26/2021 11:06:41 AM PST by enumerated
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To: enumerated
enumerated: "I made a statement that Lincoln was owned by the railroad lobby.
It is a matter of record that his campaign was heavily financed by railroad tycoons who believed installing a career railroad lawyer (Lincoln) in the White House would help them federalize their transcontinental railway project.
You called me a liar without proof... "

No, I implied you're a liar because, like all Democrats, you are a liar, and your own words prove it.
Lincoln was no more "owned" by "railroad tycoons" than Donald Trump was "owned" by Vladimir Putin!
So your claim is absurd on the face of it, and typical of the way you Democrats think.

First of all, the issue in 1860 was not "federalizing" the transcontinental railroad -- that much was already fully agreed on.
The issue then was where, exactly, that railroad should run.
Republicans wanted a northern or central route, your Democrats wanted a Southern route.
And your Democrat president at the time, Jefferson Davis, had already spent US Federal dollars, the equivalent in today's terms of $65 billion, for the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico -- to provide land suitable for a transcontinental rail route that would pass near his house in Mississippi.
So, was Jefferson Davis also "owned" by railroad tycoons?

Second, and still more absurd, is the fact that even after approving the central route, and work begun in California, one of those "railroad tycoons" became Lincoln's Democrat opponent for reelection in 1864 -- George McClellan.
So, if McClellan already owned Lincoln, why would he run against him for President?

Now you claim you're not a Democrat, never were a Democrat, never voted Democrat and yet, and yet, you were raised as a Democrat and like all Democrats you were taught as a child to hate the United States and most especially, to hate Republicans.
And that's why you're so eager to believe the lies Democrats tell about Republican Lincoln, while utterly ignoring even worse behavior among your own dear leaders, like Jefferson Davis.

12 posted on 02/26/2021 10:29:15 PM PST by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...) )
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