I don’t know what more he (Lincoln) could have done, nor what more he could have given up beyond his life. And I’m not even necessarily a big Lincoln fan.
What the heck? What’s with the sitting, standing comparison?
I really hate this nit-picky and stupid article. So she misspoke. So what? She’s an amazing Christian woman and anti-abortion campaigner. I’m sure she knows Lincoln didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence.
I don’t know how much I’d read into this. People make stupid comparisons in speeches and get carried away with metaphors and rhetorical tricks like the “sitting” vs. “standing” metaphor based on the respective statues. I’d simply take this as a warning to not be “too clever by half” in your public speaking.
Martin Luther King....the man stood for many things, one of them was peace. Go to MLK street, road or boulevard in any city in this nation and try to find the peace.
“Forget it, she’s rolling.”
Maybe for her, the Emancipation Proclamation is the Declaration of Independence...
That said, I'm sure one of her more educated staff could point his out - if she had any 'educated' staff.
Well, Lincoln would have said, and did, that the EP was just an extension of the DOI.
Lincoln was largely responsible for bringing the DOI back into public consciousness as an aspirational document for the nation, as opposed to the nuts and bolts Constitution, which other than in the Bill of Rights has little to say about what the government should stand for.
I know that she’s right. He took a copy of the existing declaration and signed his name to it. I was there when he signed it.
The difference is that MLK was assassinated for standing up for the truth while Abraham Lincoln was, ugh, what, how did he die anyway?
And, to advance the cause of equality, men and women defied the KKK during the civil rights movement, and during Lincoln’s day, what did they do, nobody even knows anymore. Maybe they were just eating their mayonnaise on white bread and sitting around listening to that white music of theirs.
And, my daddy counseled people not to be angry or let past injustice poison human relations. And what did the Lincoln fellow ever do to bind the nation’s wounds?
As you can see, now that we have a monument to my daddy, I can finally be proud of this country, about which I have no idea that anything good ever transpired before.
Americans need to take an American History class.
Classmate of Barry Soetoro???
Did he use a Steam Punk Time Machine?
LLS
“Stand up, Abe. Let ‘em see ya!”
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