Barack Obama-You are no Abraham Lincoln!
ByInvestor’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”.
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Good grief. I don’t even know what to say.
Some people are just so hard to please. Geez!
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