To: Prince Charles
Yee...owchh! thats gotta hurt.
To: Prince Charles
I compare him more with Benedict Arnold.
3 posted on
05/01/2004 3:38:44 AM PDT by
sgtbono2002
(I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
To: Prince Charles
Thanks...proves, "in history, humane nature doesn't change much" Kerry = Douglas...Hillary Rodham Klintoon = "PAPA JOE" Stalin
4 posted on
05/01/2004 3:42:46 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: Prince Charles
Douglas' last hurrah was his presidential run in 1860. Lincoln received a minority of popular votes cast but wonAnd how often do you hear that when the Dems complain about Gore winning the popular vote.
Lincoln lost the popular vote too!
5 posted on
05/01/2004 3:43:38 AM PDT by
dawn53
To: Prince Charles
Nice historical analogy and analysis!
6 posted on
05/01/2004 4:00:01 AM PDT by
opocno
To: Prince Charles
Lincoln showed his early genius when he pinned Douglas down on his "flip-flopping" at Freeport. Douglas claimed to support the Dred Scott decision, which basically would have made it impossible for the U.S. to end slavery by any means (denying BOTH the U.S. Constitution and "states' rights"). But Douglas also supported "popular sovereignty" (let the people of a territory choose to have slavery or not).
Lincoln said, "How can you reconcile these? Which do you support?" And Douglas said, a la Kerry, "both." Slavery should be legal, but if people don't want it, let them elect officials who won't enforce slavery. Lincoln then showed that this institutionalized a total disregard for all laws.
The South abandoned Douglas after he showed people how to "skate" around the law, and the North abandoned him because he supported slavery.
7 posted on
05/01/2004 4:16:51 AM PDT by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
To: Prince Charles
If Douglas was known as "The Little Giant", can we call Kerry "The Giant Midget"?
8 posted on
05/01/2004 4:49:21 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(You can see it coming like a train on a track.)
To: Prince Charles
To: Prince Charles
Kerry specifically called for a series of debates in the style of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Obviously, Kerry sees himself as Lincoln. And just as obviously, the rest of us see him as Lurch.
12 posted on
05/01/2004 6:01:09 AM PDT by
samtheman
(www.georgewbush.com)
To: Prince Charles
Had history turned out a bit differently, Douglas might have married Mary Todd instead of Lincoln. He had been a suitor of hers and she was among the most popular debutantes in her social circle. Her family was fairly well off. Their Kentucky home sat next to that of the well-known Cassius Clay. With her emotional & mental problems, she could have been the Julia Thorne of her time. And with her caustic, slashing tongue, she could have been the Teresa Heinz of that day as well. Who knows how things would have gone. Mary might have been institutionalized or died earlier and Douglas free to divorce her and marry a new rich wife. Stranger things have happened.
13 posted on
05/01/2004 6:20:28 AM PDT by
mass55th
To: Prince Charles
Ouch-- and I've been whispering that JohnKerry was Custer
reincarnate --only the luck of dying at the Little Bighorn,
and the pluck Custer showed when he was a decorated military
veteran is a might lacking as so much is in Kerry.
To: Prince Charles
reply #4..."PAPA UNCLE JOE".. :|
15 posted on
05/01/2004 8:12:51 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: Prince Charles
I think there's a strong analogy as well to the election of 1864 (Lincoln vs McClellan). An incumbent in a divisive war vs a challenger charging "the war cannot be won and I have the credentials to lead, not you Lincoln". If not for military victories in the election year of 1864, things may have well turned out differently.....
16 posted on
05/01/2004 8:13:31 AM PDT by
oswald
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