[GOPJ]

I would like to also add that Lincoln ad-libbed all of it in an unplanned preamble to his planned speech (which then followed). He was reacting to a campaign poster that had been tacked on the door to the hall where the debate was held. The poster was a crude depiction of a white man and a black woman with a child between them (as if, according to Lincoln’s opponents, that would become the model American family if Abe was elected to the Senate.) The entirety of what you posted, together with the cheap-shot artists cherry-picked smear, was Lincoln’s off the cuff responding to that campaign poster. The meat of his rebuttal to Douglas was to follow.

You've just added nice texture to the story... thanks Handy...

[jeffersondem]

HandyDandy says to GOPJ: “Thank you, GOPJ, for giving the supporting text to the cherry-picked extract from our own cheap-shot artist, jeffersondem.”

GOPJ replies to HandyDandy: “You've just added nice texture to the story... thanks Handy...”

I love you both, but . . . if you will stop firing on each others tracers for a moment, you might realize you are both off-target.