[PJ-Comix]

Actually, I retract that comment! I'm not as familiar with Lincoln as I should be, and when I went to look for the various quotes that I recalled, I immediately stumbled across an essay which establishes that they're fraudulent. Sorry for my misguided remark..

Thanx for the correction. If you look at the record, Lincoln had absolutely NO connection to Marxism or Socialism. Remember, early in his political career Lincoln was a member of the Whig party which was considered the "conservative" party at the time.

[AntiGuv]

Sounds good. Truce! :) I admit that my 19th century American history is probably weaker than most any other period or region..

[billhilly]

The argument about this article and its connection to Lincoln is a moot argument. We will never know how Lincoln would have reacted to these modern revisionists. Lincoln was used in this instance simply as a way to reach millions of impressional and emotional tourists.

The left never misses a chance to taint the masses. Why did Willie Sutton rob banks?

[aristeides]

Lincoln was something approaching an abolitionist, a religious free thinker, and an Illinois railroad lawyer. The Whig Party, besides being the business party, was also the party of Protestant religious uplift and social reform. PC is in many ways descended from that strain of Protestantism. Lincoln might still have been a Republican today, but he would have been a country club Republican, and probably would have accepted all sorts of PC.