Barack Obama-You’re no Abraham Lincoln
About the Author: Living in Central New York...Married to home remodeling contractor...Mother of two young boys...BA in Social and Behavioral Sciences...ARM Designation (Associates in Risk Mgmt)...17 years in the insurance industry...Currently working as consultant/analyst (insurance)...Love country, 70's, 80's and 90's music...Grew up in suburbs of Philly, PA-hence the love of the Phillies, Eagles and Flyers...Baseball mom (kids tried skating, didn't like it so I can't claim...that I'm a hockey mom-dang, maybe I'll try again this winter!!!)...Like to ski (at least my husband thinks so)...Been a political junkie my whole life, more so after 9/11/01. Read more from this authorInvestor’s Business Daily always has good op-ed pieces and this one is no exception. They dug up an essay Obama wrote for Time Magazine in 2005. Obama said he distanced himself from Lincoln’s limited views on race. Is he kidding?!? So Barack Obama wants us all to think he’s the next Abraham Lincoln, yet doesn’t think Lincoln held the right views on race? You’ve got to be kidding me.
The article emphasizes the goodness of America, the goodness Obama fails to acknowledge.
From 1776 through the early 1800s, America witnessed the greatest anti-slavery movement ever, as half of the original states abolished slavery and active anti-slavery societies sprang up elsewhere, the importation of African slaves was outlawed, and the spread of slavery was prohibited.
Nineteenth century changes in technology and economics, political theory and Christian theology gave rise to a defense of slavery and a corresponding rejection of the Founding principles. But Lincoln would not let those principles fade. Instead, he presided over America’s most horrific struggle, the Civil War, in order to preserve them. His reward was a bullet blasted through his brain.
When Obama complains that he “cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator” because “as a law professor and civil rights lawyer and as an African-American, I am fully aware of his limited views on race,” what more would Obama have advised Lincoln to do?
Oddly enough, if Obama is elected president, Americans will be enslaved again. We’ll no longer work to benefit ourselves and our families. Instead, we’ll be working for the “common good”.
Yep, we’re all going to be on welfare — just like John McCain, who by the way collects social security, disability, and a full paycheck even though he hasn’t been to work in six months. He’s a welfare queen.
I saw a quick headline on this somewhere. Thanks for the info.
Maggie M. Thornton
Ben Hoffman Says:
August 23, 2008 at 11:04 pm e
Yep, we’re all going to be on welfare — just like John McCain, who by the way collects social security, disability, and a full paycheck even though he hasn’t been to work in six months. He’s a welfare queen.
Ben, McCain deserves his disability and until we change the rules, he deserves his paycheck, just as Obama, who seldom votes other than the unproductive present, deserves his. I don’t know about SS. I thought the Senate and House had a different setup.
Maggie Thornton
Ben Hoffman - Are you saying we should deny disability benefits to veterans who have flown combat missions, survived having their plane shot down and then tortured as a POW for 5 years?
I have written this elsewhere, but it is appropriate to place here.
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas (coincidentally a Senator from Illinois) said that slavery should remain legal on the basis of “popular sovereignty.” Douglas said that, although he personally didn’t believe in slavery, neither he or anyone else should have the right to take away that choice. Let the states decide for themselves.
And Lincoln responded, “You can’t have a right to do wrong.” He pointed out that the state could not be neutral. If there was nothing wrong with slavery, if there was nothing different between owning slaves and owning cattle, then so be it. But Lincoln argued that this wasn’t the case. Slavery was wrong, and it was therefore immoral to allow the “right” to continue the institution.
Speed ahead about 150 years. Barack Obama now champions the very same argument that would still have blacks in chains today had it been accepted. Again, the state cannot be neutral in abortion, anymore than it could be neutral in (other) homicide laws.
Fetuses are human beings. Take a moment and consider the taxonomic system by which every living thing is rigorously categorized and classified. By that system a human embryo is of the kingdom Anamalia, of the phylum Chordata, of the class Mammalia, of the order Primate, of the family Pongidae, of the genus Homo, and of the species Sapiens - same as any other human being. Put even more simply, that embryo is a human by virtue of its parents, and a being by the fact that it is a living thing: it is a HUMAN BEING.
To put it even more bluntly, it is every bit as human as any African slave.
Lincoln said, “You cannot have a right to do wrong.” The Democrats disagreed in 1860, and they continue to disagree today.
Good thing for American blacks that Barack Obama wasn’t president in 1861.