David Gregory Asks Obama 'Is This Your Lincoln Moment?'

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Of all the gushing, fawning, sycophantic things uttered by Obama-loving media members in 2012, David Gregory's fiscal cliff question posed to the President on Sunday's Meet the Press has to be on the list of the year's top ten.

"Is this your Lincoln moment?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

[Uncle Chip]

No, David, that was your brown-nose moment — one of your many.

[combat_boots]

July 2-4, 1863. 35,000 dead. Mid-calf rivers of blood in the Wheatfield.

Let the tabular statement of Vanderslice demonstrate   the cost of that fighting: 

Location	Confederate casualties	Federal casualties
Wheat-Field	2,822	4,133
Emmittsburg Road	1,978	2,645
Peach Orchard	1,047	1,285
Round Top	826	575
Total	6,673	8,638

These casualties, it should be noted, include the missing, but it is probable that 5,500 Southerners were killed and wounded in this fight, and  perhaps 7,800 Northerners. It was certainly one of the most terrible conflicts of the war. Not even at Antietam, in the battle that raged around the Cornfield and the Dunker Church on the morning of September 17^th 1862, had blood been shed more copiously.

Lincoln? Ha! Actually, I think 0bama's ammoing up for a few more zeroes. Let's call it for the 'sake' of 'global warming,' gun 'control,' and a push 'for the children.'

Benghazi was FREE.

[DustyMoment]

David Gregory keeps proving that he’s an idiot’s idiot!

However, as for the rest, there are implications that go well beyond the superficial, softball question. To quell the uprising in the South, Lincoln turned the Constitution into confetti that was later dumped on him after the South was forced to capitulate. The Founding Fathers had ALWAYS considered secession as part of the balance of power, even tough it wasn’t memorialized in the Constitution. It WAS memorialized in the Federalist Papers!

Obama has already turned the Constitution into confetti and his just awaiting his “hero” moment. When the revolt occurs, I believe it will end differently than it did in 1865. Too many things have changed and, zero being the arrogant, narcissistic, dictator that he is, believes that he IS the reincarnation of Lincoln and every great president we have had.

The fiscal cliff is coming in one form or another. zero and the Dems want this country in poverty and disarray. When we go over the cliff and most Americans see an additional $3500 per year of their disposable income being taken away by the government, along with the new tidal wave of layoffs, we are facing a very, very bad future.

So, the question must be asked: “where is the passion for freedom, liberty, exceptionalism and individualism? When we do say “I’m mad as h%ll and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” When is enough enough?” I see a lot of talk, here, but no action to back it up.

[Praxeologue]

Obama defining himself as Lincoln would redefine the civil war as the conservatives are the Confederates who need to be not only defeated, but vanquished.

That was Spielberg's intent in the movie "Lincoln". It was a subliminal analogue for Obama's vanquishing of the ideological Neanderthals who oppose his courageous imposition of socialism/emancipation. The fact that Lincoln was a Republican merely served to make the director's motivation less obvious, giving it some cover.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

. . . obviously the magnitude of the issues is quite different from the Civil War and slavery.

Today it is greater.. today the issues affect everyone's everyday life coast to coast and border to border.. 24/7. We are told what and how to do it and what to use right down to the toilet paper.

The issues are

• statism vs. the individual
• "human rights" permitted by government vs. inalienable rights given us by our Creator.

.. and what makes it even more galling.. here are the ones doing it to us

[Beagle8U]

No David, it's more like this is the moment that America realized just how bad Lincoln Effed up!

[DPMD]

Is this your Lincoln moment, because it’s definitely my Deep Throat moment. Love, David.

[jmaroneps37]

Was he looking up from his knees when he asked?

[cruise_missile]

Mary Lincoln moment.