[clintonbaiter]

More liberal-left infamy in the cultural war for the hearts and minds of the American people.

[TomServo]

Dixie Ping!

[homeschool mama]

Revisionist history...it's what is being taught to your children in government schools. :o/

[roderick]

Isn't this Orwellian? Didn't he remark to the effect that to control the past is to control the future?

[GOPyouth]

I'm a conservative, and I consider myself and the party lucky to have Lincoln on our side.

[Faithfull]

One has to question who are the people behind the exhibits in our museums? Time to have fair and balanced curators. Heard the same about plans at Gettysburg to 'twist' history into fitting with the liberal agenda. This makes me sick and outraged....

[bigunreal]

Lincoln was unquestionably what we now think of as "liberal." His presidency was very smiliar to FDR's, in that he ignored the constitutional limits placed upon his office and greatly expanded presidential powers for his successors. His abuses of power are well-known, and are always excused by the court historians and the overwhelming majority of all Americans, whose knowledge of Lincoln is limited to McHistory soundbites about "freeing the slaves" and "saving the union." No one disputes the fact that he ignored the constitution by suspending the writ of habeous corpus, closed down scores of newspapers who dared to criticize his administration, threw unknown numbers of hapless northerners into dreadful makeshift prisons, and allowed his generals to practice a barbaric brand of prosecuting the war that left untold numbers of women and children starving and homeless. Like all Americans, I used to consider Lincoln a shining beacon, and chills ran down my spine when I read some of his timeless speeches. Then I read "The South Was Right" a few years ago. Unfortunately, for the mythical view of "Honest Abe," those inconvenient facts paint a far different picture.

[#3Fan]

I see the neo-Confederates are siding with the liberals again. They're started to make a habit of that.

[Nakota]

The last time I was at the Lincoln Memorial there was a flock of pidgeons roosting on the head of the statue and leaving the usual disgusting pidgeon residue on Honest Abe's visage. I asked the Park Ranger why this was allowed to happen and he quite matter of factly told me that the Lincoln Memorial was a National Park and all wild life were therefore protected.

Too bad for Honest Abe.

[William Terrell]

The whole article.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: STATESPERSON AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY ACTIVIST

by Paul Walfield

Marc Morano of CNSNews has reported that tours of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. aren't what they used to be. I can remember my first visit to D.C. way back when and my parents telling me about the Lincoln Memorial, and walking up the huge steps, and seeing the great man seated and looking majestic. I can even remember seeing his words etched in the stone all around me as I stood at his feet. It was striking, it was awe-inspiring.

I thought I had learned a good deal about Lincoln in school and felt like I knew him. I guess I was wrong.

Now, according to the Discovery Channel, Abraham Lincoln, Republican and the 16th President of the United States, was in reality a liberal Democrat. Moreover, not just any liberal Democrat. According to the folks at Discovery Channel, Abe Lincoln was slightly to the left of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone.

The Discovery Channel produced a video that is displayed in the Lincoln Legacy Room at the Memorial. The video is available for all who come to the Memorial in order to get a better understanding of what Mr. Lincoln stood for.

According to CNSNews, contents of the video at the Lincoln Memorial "includes signs reading 'Gay & Lesbian Sexual Rights,' 'Council of Churches Lesbian Rights,' 'National Organization for Women' (NOW), 'Reagan's Wrongs Equal Women's Rights,' 'ERA Yes,' 'Ratify the ERA,' 'I had an illegal abortion in 1967 - Never Again,' 'Keep Abortion Legal,' 'I am pro-choice America'; a Vietnam-era video clip of a woman asking: 'President Nixon where are our men?' ; and signs reading, 'Who will Decide NARAL (National Abortion Rights & Reproductive Action League) In Opposition to King Richard [Nixon]?', 'U.S. out Now,' 'Equal Opportunity for All,' and marchers chanting 'U.S. Out Now.'" The video contains no clips of any opposing or contrary demonstrations, except to unfavorably show pro-life activists tangling with pro-abortionists.

All to the tune of "We Shall Overcome,"

Throughout the years, there has been a tendency among the young and impressionable to accept what they learn in school about our former Presidents. Whether it's about the honesty of George Washington, the bravery of Teddy Roosevelt, or the wit and wisdom of John F. Kennedy. It's not that we received a "complete" picture of thes leaders; we just got what we needed. And what we got was based upon historical fact.

Now, demonstrating their inimitable dumbed-down "What would Jesus Drive?" mentality, the folks on the Left have decided to extrapolate Abe Lincoln's views from the 1800's to their present day agendas. Whether it is abortion on demand, Gay Rights, Gun Control, or not fighting communism, Honest Abe may not be with them in body, but he is in spirit.

The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington D.C., is part of the National Park Service and does not charge an entrance fee. In 2001, there were 4,115,139 visitors to the memorial, and it cost taxpayers a little over 2 million dollars per year to maintain.

Nowadays it may be politically correct for students to question our government about everything it does, and to find nefarious motives present in any endeavor undertaken by the present Administration. After all, It has gotten so bad that President Bush is viewed by some to be a greater danger than Saddam Hussein of Iraq, or Kim Jong Il of North Korea. However, students don't learn to dislike their government innately; they have to be taught that.

It isn't clear when it became trendy to teach Americans not just what was evidenced by the historical record, but also to teach according to an ideological bias and personal opinion. Unfortunately, it looks like the followers of the political left, knowing that their ideology cannot withstand being logically scrutinized or even questioned, have adopted the "indoctrination" practises common to all totalitarians. They program their message to an audience as "education," knowing that as "educators" they needn't fear being challenged during what is really an indoctrination.

No one can know for a fact how Mr. Lincoln would feel today about any of the things the political left claims are offshoots of his 19th-century struggle against injustice. What we do know is that Abraham Lincoln was willing to go to war to keep America united.

American leftists -- with their penchant to claim allegiance to a free and just land while they purposefully stifle any opposing views to their own -- can do little but divide America. Not along the Mason-Dixon line, but rather within the consciousness of Americans.

Paul Walfield is a freelance writer and member of the State Bar of California with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and post-graduate study in behavioral and analytical psychology. He resided for a number of years in the small town of Houlton, Maine and is now a California attorney. Paul can be contacted at paul.walfield@cox.net

[society-by-contract]

Lincoln was a tyrant:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/lincoln-arch.html

[John123]

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[Liberatio]

Isn't there an accountability board for this? If not, there should be a voluntary one to crack these people on the head once in a while. Sometimes I just want to scream.