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George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'
US News & World Report - Washington Whispers ^
| 2008-12-23
| Justin Ewers
Posted on 12/23/2008 12:25:58 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Few people come as quickly to the defense of George McGovern as McGovern himself. The antiwar senator from South Dakota lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide in the 1972 presidential election, only to see Nixon, caught up in the Watergate scandal, resign in disgrace. For McGovern, thoughalong with many Democrats who followed himthe damage was done, and the now retired politician has spent decades defending the electability of antiwar liberals, insisting his campaign was undone by dirty tricks and bad luck. In recent years, McGovern, 86, hasn't relinquished the spotlight, condemning the war in Iraq and declaring Barack Obama, whom he endorsed after initially supporting Hillary Clinton, a "second Abraham Lincoln."
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barf; bho2008; democrats; endorsement; gagme; mcgovern; obama; obamatransitionfile; obarfbag; rats
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To: rabscuttle385
Barack Hussein Obama is Lincoln!
From an Internet source:
"It is, in fact, almost silly even to refer to "Constitutional rights" during the Lincoln Administration."
"Many have pointed out that Lincoln suspended habeas corpus . . . shut down hundreds of newspapers . . . instituted restrictions on firearms, and sent troops to violently suppress [demonstrations] . . . [pushed a program] of de facto nationalization . . . ."
Doh!
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posted on
12/23/2008 12:53:35 PM PST
by
WilliamofCarmichael
(If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
To: meyer
i’ll 2nd that but i do not believe it is going to be THE ONE........
To: rabscuttle385; All
More like a second Jimmy Carter.
McGovern; still clueless after all these years!
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posted on
12/23/2008 12:55:20 PM PST
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: rabscuttle385
Does that mean he will throw people in jail for disagreeing with him?
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posted on
12/23/2008 12:56:05 PM PST
by
oblomov
(Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. - Mencken)
To: rabscuttle385; All
"George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'"
45
posted on
12/23/2008 12:57:59 PM PST
by
musicman
To: RightWhale
“This time the whole country will secede from California.”
I want Cal. to secede from Sacto and Frisco.
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posted on
12/23/2008 12:58:25 PM PST
by
Lou Budvis
("I did not have sex with that woman..." = "I did not have contact with the governor..")
To: rabscuttle385
Perhaps we can hook up a generator to Pres. Lincoln. The electricity we’d get from him spinning in his grave would light a small city.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:00:57 PM PST
by
wbill
To: rabscuttle385
"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, right. Just what Obama would have said.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:01:15 PM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.)
To: rabscuttle385
A second Lincoln?...
... more like a second Edsel!
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:02:02 PM PST
by
Gritty
(After 2 years of national exposure, Barack Obama is a bigger blank slate than ever-James Lewis)
To: rabscuttle385
Does that mean we’re about to have a second civil war Mr. McGovern?
If so, your “Lincoln” is on the wrong side and is going to lose.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:04:50 PM PST
by
DB
To: rabscuttle385
Wasn't LINCOLN a REPUBLICAN?????
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:06:44 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
("Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" said Hillary Clinton. I'll be REALLY patriotic!)
To: rabscuttle385
Will the coronation of the liberal messiah ever stop? He hasn’t spent a day as president and already they are canonizing him.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:08:05 PM PST
by
edge10
(Obama lied, babies died!)
To: rabscuttle385
What an insult to Mr. Lincoln.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:09:43 PM PST
by
Paige
("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
To: rabscuttle385
Just heard today that Zero is going to be sworn in using the Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in with.
The absolute arrogance and self-importance of Obama is incredible. He's worse than Bill Clinton, if that's even possible. To basically suggest that he is in some way as significant and historically important as Lincoln? When he's nothing more than our first 1/2 white, fully socialist president?
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:09:56 PM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: rabscuttle385
With the thoughts he’ll be thinkin’
He could be another Lincoln,
If he only had a brain....
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:10:25 PM PST
by
tumblindice
(If u knead me I'll be drinkin')
To: rabscuttle385
George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'The very fact that McGovern is saying this is a sure sign that Obama is NOT.
To: rabscuttle385
A second Lincoln?<>
Planning to see a show soon at Ford theatre, is he? :)
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:16:40 PM PST
by
DocH
(Hussein Obama: Leader of an America-Hating Socialist /Black Nationalist Sleeper Cell)
To: rabscuttle385
Does Obama sleep with men too?
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:19:17 PM PST
by
FTJM
To: rabscuttle385
It's amazing to me how these folks lionize Obama without his yet having done a damned thing besides getting elected.
It's all about image, I suppose.
Really, though, it just means he'll hit the ground that much harder when he falls -- and I'm pretty sure that he will fall.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:21:01 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: DocH
So Mrs. Obama, other than that, how did you like the play.
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posted on
12/23/2008 1:22:11 PM PST
by
Gator113
("Noli nothis permittere te terere.")
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