Obraham Lib-con: "Do this is rememberance of me...cuz thats the only thing that matters.....ME!"
Posted on 02/12/2007 9:02:12 AM PST by george76
Today is of course the birthday of America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America's indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its "ancient faith" that all men are created equal.
In 1858 Lincoln attained national prominence in the Republican Party as the result of the contest for the Senate seat held by Stephen Douglas. It was Lincoln's losing campaign against Douglas that made him a figure of sufficient prominence that he could be the party's 1860 presidential nominee.
At the convention of the Illinois Republican Party in June, Lincoln was the unanimous choice to run against Douglas. After making him its nominee late on the afternoon of June 16, the entire convention returned that evening to hear Lincoln speak. Accepting the convention's nomination, Lincoln gave one of the most incendiary speeches in American history.
Lincoln electrified the convention, asserting that the institution of slavery had made the United States "a house divided against itself." Slavery would either be extirpated or become lawful nationwide, Lincoln predicted, provocatively quoting scriptural authority to the effect that "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
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The only president to declare war on his own people.
Was there a declaration of war? I don't think so. I think he was battling insurgents. ;-)
God Bless you, Mr. lincoln.
I have to quibble with the notion he was the greatest.
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KING LINCOLN ARCHIVE....
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/lincoln-arch.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/lincoln-arch.html
Geo Washington is my first choice.
Nonsense.
Mine too. Lincoln in the top 5 though. And Lincoln had the worst job ever at the time.
As much as I respect and admire Abraham Lincoln I would agree with you. George Washington blazed the trail, and all presidents since then have walked in his shadow.
Lincoln's private "Patriot Act" shut down scores of newspapers that published opposing views, arrested and imprisoned the political opposition as "traitors", and censored communication of information that was considered injurious to the national interest.
Senator Barack Abraham Hussein Obama was not available to comment.
He did release a press statement... "George W. Bush continues to trample on our rights of free expression and privacy."
The greatest President we ever had was our first. Abe isn't even close.
The greatest President we ever had was our first. Abe isn't even close.
Geo Washington was the one essential person.
Not to hijack my own thread, but...
Washington not only spent eight years as commander in chief during the war ( for no pay ) and then eight as president, he did lots of other stuff like the constitution drafting President, laid the corner stones for federal buildings...
He set the example for so many things that we take for granted today...
So you admit that the South were his people, eh? That's a good first step. ^_^
Let's all behave now and not get mad about stuff that happened a century and a half ago. This isn't Europe, after all. XD
The other was born in poverty, became wealthy as a corporate lawyer (railroads mainly), a failed politician for most of his political life, and the most reviled and hated politician of his time.
Both of these men REQUIRE their own holiday so that we beneficiaries of their greatness should learn about them. In honoring Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday, their honor was diminished by combining their days. At the VERY LEAST, there should be equal honors paid by speeches and parades for them as well as Dr.King - I should live so long!
I have a dream!!!!
Seems to me I recall the insurrectionists fired the first shot at Ft. Sumter.
I'm not aware that they considered themselves "his people" at the time it was declared.
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