Posted on 01/19/2009 3:30:57 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan
Obama has little in common with Lincoln Star Parker - Syndicated Columnist - 1/19/2009 9:35:00 AM
It's ironic that Barack Obama chooses to infuse these opening days of his presidency with the imagery of Abraham Lincoln.
I don't think there could be two more different men. Understanding why may help us think about what to expect in the days ahead.
Beyond his trademark "change we can believe in," Obama's defining theme has been unity and inclusiveness. "...There's not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there's the United States of America....We worship an awesome God in the Blue States...and have gay friends in the Red States."
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
“Obama has little in common with Lincoln”
Well, DUH!!!! lol
The liberals having the audacity to compare Obama to Lincoln......it makes me sick!
Well, they both had white mothers.
They both were partly black ...
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759763,00.html?promoid=googlep
Communists have tried to claim Lincoln since the thirties.
Rain Check on Revolution Monday, May. 30, 1938
That Abraham Lincoln is today a hero to U. S. Communists
is a matter of plain geometry.
In revolutionary jargon, Communist policy is known as the
Party Line, and lately the Party Line has described a neat
curve toward democracy.
In recent Communist thought Lincoln, Jefferson, and Tom
Paine have assumed a stature comparable to that of Joseph
Stalin and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
However much this may surprise the bourgeoisie, Communists
planned it that way.
This week they also planned their convention and its
publicized dramatics to impress upon all U. S. minds a
man, a policy, a party, a program.
Lincoln had a big mole...
BHO has big Mo...
Lincoln was a product of his times and was not an ‘emancipator’. He did not see the black race or the Indian race as ‘equal’. He ‘confiscated’ an asset of the Confederacey, slaves, as commander in chief during war. He made no other move to end slavery. But then he was a mediocre, unknown politician like Obama.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Declaration of Independence
“I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say that all men were equal in color, size, intellect, moral development, or social capacity,”
Abraham Lincoln, “Seventh and Last Joint Debate at Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858”
Lincoln`s own beliefs prior to the South`s secession were that blacks should be repatriated back to Africa or relocated to the Caribbean or Central America.
Lincoln,” I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln , Vol. III, pp. 145-146.; The Struggle for Equality (Princeton Univ. Press, 1964); Created Equal?: The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Lincoln:
” I have no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.”
Lincoln`s first message to Congress on December 3, 1861 proposed that those freed during the war be colonized,removed,from the States,”It might be well to consider, too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization.”
Lincoln`s Confiscation Act of July 1862 had monies in place specifically for resettling blacks.
August 14, 1862, Abe met with black ministers at the white house and read a statement in regards to his Chiriqui resettlement project,
” You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffers very greatly, many of them, by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated.”
Lincoln was in fact in favor of repatriation BEFORE agreeing with the emancipation movement and only reluctantly. In his Congress of December 1, 1862 Lincoln affirmed support for gradual emancipation coupled with “deportation”,
” I cannot make it better known than it already is, that I strongly favor colonization.”
The Civil War then lingering on for over a year forced Lincoln to use the emancipation proclamation as a propaganda effort to claim the moral high ground for the North.
September 13, 1862, Lincoln said, “ Understand, I raise no objections against it [slavery] on legal or constitutional grounds ... I view the matter [emancipation] as a practical war measure, to be decided upon according to the advantages or disadvantages it may offer to the suppression of the rebellion.”
Even during the outbreak of the civil war Abe stuck to his policy before his war emancipation propaganda gambit. He countermanded orders by Union generals to free slaves.Gen. Framont in Missouri declared all slaves to be free, Abe immediately canceled the order.Gen. Hunter did likewise, Abe countermanded immediately. An irate Congress then only consisting of Northern States passed the Confiscation Act, freeing all slaves who`s owners dared to declare secession, Abe refused to sign the Bill until amended and then only signed it reluctantly stating his dissatisfaction and did not faithfully enforce either of the Confiscation Acts.
The genesis of the war was not slavery but tariffs and taxes being levied on southern States by the North. Southern States were debating cessation long before 1860 BECAUSE of the decades long feud over the proper economic role of the central government. High tariffs were punishing the south beginning with the 1828 Tariff of Abominations.
The only similarity between B.Hussein Obama and Lincoln is their economic views.
Lincoln was a proponent of Clayism much the way Hussein of today adhere to Keynesianism. Lincoln was in favor of a massive central govt. supported by massive tariffs.Since they were so dependent on trade, by 1860 the Southern states were paying in excess of 80 percent of all tariffs, while they believed that most of the revenue from the tariffs was being spent in the North.
Lincoln`s plans were for even higher tariffs. The South had had enough and rightly seceded.
If Lincoln were resurrected today he would be somewhat of a white supremacist who would allow blacks to be free, but free to leave the USA and not come back. The only issue he would be in complete agreement with B.Hussein Obama is in the belief of a massive central government, punishing taxes and ignoring the Constitution, be it the 10nth Amendment, Habeas Corpus and jailing political opponents.
It's only fair.
No one has much in common with Lincoln.
Here is an interesting article about Lincoln and Clay.
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/issues/lincoln.html
obozo’s think tank have been connecting him to Lincoln for the blacks even though elitist obozo was never connected to the black, Roosevelt for the New Deal that connected the RAT party, and Kennedy for the liberals to keep the name Kennedy alive so that no-nothing, no experience Caroline can get the NY Senate job, following no-nothing, no experience obozo’s lead.
Lincoln: “I freed the slaves”.
Obama: “I feed the slaves.”
The only difference is the “R”...
It’s more like another president. Did John T. Flynn nail down the current approach 60 years ago? Is history repeating itself?
Chapter 4 - The New New Deal
In the beginning, of course, was Roosevelt. And then came the Brain Trust. After that we had the Great Man and the Brain Trust. The casual reader may suppose this is just a catch collection of syllables. But it is impossible to estimate the power these few words exercised upon the minds of the American people. After all, a crowd of big business boobies, a lot of butterfingered politicians, two big halls full of shallow and stupid congressmen and senators had made a mess of America. That was the bill of goods sold to the American people. Now amidst the ruins appeared not a mere politician, not a crowd of tradesmen and bankers and congressmen, but a Great Man attended by a Brain Trust to bring understanding first and then order out of chaos.
Actually there are no big men in the sense in which Big Men are sold to the people. There are men who are bigger than others and a few who are wiser and more courageous and farseeing than these. But it is possible with the necessary pageantry and stage tricks to sell a fairly bright fellow to a nation as an authentic BIG Man. Actually this is developing into an art, if not a science. It takes a lot of radio, movie, newspaper and magazine work to do it, but it can be done.
http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/hbzfrm.htm
Thanks to FReeper Race Bannon for the link.
With a courtesy ping to FReeper, IncPen. Hoping he will post his FreeRepublic CLASSIC CBS blinking eye with references to the Kennedy myth.
How many slaves in the US were freed by the emancipation proclamation? Thats right, ZERO. Only the Slaves in the CSA were freed. Let us pray he doesn’t emulate Ol’ Abe in his disrespect for the constitution, beginning with his disrespect for the qualifications for POTUS.
barbra ann
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