Obama Celebrates Lincoln’s Bicentennial with ‘Special Gratitude’

I suppose we are “far less divided” if he means we aren’t shooting at each other…

“Obama spoke of Lincoln’s order at the end of the Civil War that no Confederate soldier was to be punished.”
Right, right: instead, the ENTIRE South was — some would say “is” — punished.
(However, look for The Pup to invoke His cartoon of Lincoln when He refuses to examine the perfidies of the corporate puppet who immediately preceded His corporate puppetocracy.)

Obama may also have channeled Nero! They have much in common. :(
I am an Independent, and I repeat: No one ever accused this guy of being wise – just arrogant, obfuscating and politically expedient! :(
Politicians love a crisis – real – or imagined – huge or pumped up!
And the democrats are using the economic downturn they created with their housing debacle to force more big brother programs down lazy, stupid, apathetic or panicked people’s throats! :(
Obama is just another manipulating, fear-mongering, lying politician attempting to keep the far left-wing happy while he enjoys the perks of the job! :(

aware2u, can’t forget Rahm. He says you never want to let a good crisis go to waste. In other words, might as well kick’em while they are down. Way to go Rahm. That gives new meanning to Rahmming the stimulus package down our throat

Human Intelligence, I know me too. When he speaks it’s like he doesn’t know he won the election. He’s still on the campaign trail.
Hey I’m new here, but I have invited all my friends to join in here. When we crash a party we like to do it right, so we copy everything we post so we can repost it if they take it down. The People will be heard, word

“to force more big brother programs down lazy, stupid, apathetic or panicked people’s throats! :( ”
If Democrats outside the mob-ridden “leadership” allow the federal government to hijack all the medical records in the country, in exchange for a one-time $250 “stimulus” for the middle-poor (those on Social Security), we might as well skip straight to the revolution, and save ourselves from listening to more blabla from the hijacked “Democrats”.
It’s uncanny. It’s nearly unbelievable. How can most of the press be going along with this crap without giving it the mockery and shoe-tossing that seem called for?
What about the POOR, for God’s sake? Are they supposed to live in the streets until they’ve eaten each other all up? It’s ludicrous.

aware2u: “And the democrats are using the economic downturn…”
Are you being paid to distribute “the buck stops… over there” talking points? You’re cutting and pasting the same thing in everywhere, regardless of whether it is even marginally applicable.

Does anyone see anything worth celebrating? All this faux-patriotism is like some kind of sick joke. Lincoln supposedly freed the slaves; now Obama and the liberal democrats have made us all slaves to a debt which we’ll never be able to pay.
Oh, and George Washington was the greatest president ever. He’s the one to really celebrate, and to mourn that we have NO ONE that is even close to his stature in government today.

JD: “Does anyone see anything worth celebrating?”
You completely missed the symbolism of the Capitol being constructed during the Civil war, didn’t you? This recession will not end the United States. Hunkering down and waiting to die is not the answer, normal life should go on.

“When he speaks it’s like he doesn’t know he won the election. He’s still on the campaign trail.”
Well, He’s campaigning for the NEXT General Election, but I doubt it’ll help.
Constant “campaign” posing also makes the Congress next to useless: rather than lose the corporate donations and freedom from oppositional scrutiny that might be excited by straight talk and principled political action, “our” representatives will smilingly down any “crap sandwich” they’re handed, eat the good parts, and pass the rest on to the uh citizenry.
This Porkulus is the fiscal equivalent of the Patriot Act. When the Congress “votes” on it, will they all turn out to sing, badly, on the Capitol steps? It’s an outrage beyond easy description.

There is no need for Patriots to wait for a full election cycle to replace corrupt public officials and take back YOUR government! Use the power of a Recall Petition.
It worked in 2003 in California to replace Grey Davis… except that it was a op to get Arnold Schwarzenegger in who otherwise couldn’t have gotten elected.
We can use this! Gather all the Patriots in your state, pick a town that’s corrupt. File legal residency, and start a recall petition. Usually, you have 90 days to get all the names.

Today, my volunteer tried to serve the Pres. Obama the pleadings from Keyes v. Obama. The guard would not grant her entry to the White House, which is fine. But the guard wouldn’t sign for the pleadings either. But, it didn’t end there either. Either the guard or Secret Service threatened her also.
In the end, we had her serve Obama’s copy of the pleadings to the Justice Department. But wanted all to know the type of transparency we have here.
Representative Eric Swafford of Tennessee has agreed to be a Plaintiff in a legal action of Dr. Orly Taitz, ESQ to demand that Barack Obama proves his eligibility.
Download a copy of Representative Swafford’s consent form and bring it to your representatives today and insist they join in this action.

I think Obama thinks he is the next Lincoln, or at least the media does. What is this unnatural obession with Lincoln by this man?

young conservative: “That being said, there are a LOT of people out there that are shocked at the mistake they made in November.”
Huh, none of the major polls – not one – supports that statement. Currently Obama’s approval rating is higher than even the historic percentage of the public who voted for him (a higher percentage than anyone except incumbent Reagan in 1984). If a lot of people who voted for him now consider it a mistake, an even larger of people who voted against him have come round to his side.

man you people are rough…what’s up, cant the guy not do anything right in your eyes….? really sad.

jhw539 The fact of the matter is the first wave of foreclosures started with the poor white AND blacks that got loans they could not afford. The banks had they’re lending practices and the democrats helped level the playing field. The implosion started from the bottom up. Which last week The O said. I’ve always said change comes from the bottom up and not from the top down. It’s the one thing he said right in his first three weeks.

young conservative: “That being said, there are a LOT of people out there that are shocked at the mistake they made in November.”
Huh, none of the major polls – not one – supports that statement. Currently Obama’s approval rating is higher than even the historic percentage of the public who voted for him (a higher percentage than anyone except incumbent Reagan in 1984). If a lot of people who voted for him now consider it a mistake, an even larger of people who voted against him have come round to his side.
jhw539- I guess we will see in 4 years who had a more realistic point of view on the situation we have ALL found ourselves in. Best of luck in your life.

Obama has this fantasy that he is the second coming of Lincoln, and seems to attempt to attach himself with his legacy whenever possible. If there were truly and corollaries between the two there would be no need for the fake theater he is practicing.

worker man – and if somebody calls you a racist you’d take exception to that I’m sure! So, in your mind if all slaves had been sent back, there wouldn’t be any of these problems. In your small warped mind, the only people who are to blame are black. Alllrighty then…sad fool!

jhw539 explain then why there have been over 50 lawsuits at the Federal Level with 5 reaching the supreme court. Why does he fight them instead of having Hawaii release the original certificate. Thats not openness and transperecy. Why has 5 retired military officers, 4 lawmakers from Tenn. joined the fight. Wait wait don’t tell me. All tin foil hatters

ajax—he signed the emancipation proclamation! LBJ made similar remarks yet pushed the civil rights act through congress. people say things at certain points in their lives. people change. people who have hate in their hearts often eventually let love in to their hearts and that is how we end up with great leaders like Lincoln and LBJ.

bdaman: “explain then why there have been over 50 lawsuits at the Federal Level with 5 reaching the supreme court.”
YOU explain why the Supreme Court, more conservative than the one that gave Bush the election in 2000, has refused to hear any of them. Not one. Why every one has been dismissed. Why Obama’s birth announcement was in the Honolulu paper (how far back does this conspiracy go?). Why you think the government’s requirements for proving citizenship (the birth certificate he provided) are inadequate in this case.
I’m not surprised that Obama isn’t personally dealing with these frivolous lawsuits, I just wish our court system didn’t have to waste its time and resources with them either, but even the nuts deserve a day in court (before being, across the board, thrown out).

bdaman—still on the cittizenship issue, lol? and you are quite serious? in these suits he is not ther petitioner or the respondent in the case. cases which have made it to the Supreme Court quickly found space in D.C. recycling bins. no court takes these suits seriously. most of these courts dismiss the suits or the Supreme Court dismisses those that make it.
why so off topic?

dbdaman: “indithinker well do us all a favor and tell us what he has done right. lead by example” – - ok, how about keeping Bob Gates as Def Sec? that was pretty good idea…

Lincoln believed in individual freedom.
Obama wants the government to control absolutely everything–making us dependent on him/them.
How can Obama be like Lincoln when he basically wants us to be slaves to him and the government?
BO isn’t like Lincoln.
Pick a dictator–any dictator.

Lincoln was a Republican.
Obama is no Lincoln. Obama is a Socialist.

In a speech written in 1858, Lincoln said:
“I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
Abraham Lincoln 1958
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I amazes me that Obama has so little knowledge of American history that he would not know that Lincoln was a racist.
Remember how racist America was just 40 years ago. Try to imagine how racist America was 160 years ago. Lincoln was a product of American 160 years ago. NOBODY wanted equality back then.
The reason Lincoln freed the slaves was to hold the Union together. It was a means to an end, not an end in itself. Lincoln said that if he could hold the Union together without freeing the slaves he would.
Obama and his followers say that if Lincoln were alive today he would be a Democrat. If Lincoln really were, his views would shock the most conservative among us.
Obama’s lack of knowledge of American history shows just how ignorant he–and his VERY belligerent followers are.

@Paul Wall, You NEED TO READ some History my friend. You are correct.. he freed the slaves, but it wasn’t because he had a change of heart!
Lincoln was determined to keep the UNION together and did what he had to TO DO IT!

Lincoln was a tyrant.

Obam – The fantasizer – He’s not Lincoln, nor will he ever come close to
his status. Lincoln was a realist, who delt with 3000 casualities a day, and a hostile France in Mexico, waiting for the chance to take back a large section of the then USA. The slavery issue was an excuse , not a reason , for conducting a continued war everyone wanted ended. When the war ended , Lincoln was working on a relocation program for the blacks. How arrogant.
If it hadn’t been for this mother and his European American side, owing to his Daddy’s lack of concern and intrest
He would be fantasizing about an Esclade
with spinners.

JD—and since when are people who believe in the civil rights of minorities racists? isn’t the opposite the case?

“i just get the news from NPR”
National Propaganda Radio’s somnolent tone simply bores listeners into submission to corporatism.

NPR, since you listen to it, ajax, presents the news. whaen they get off into talk i lose interest. they have many republican guests and treat them curteously and do not express hostile bias. i watch Fox News and respect them as a source of unbiased information.
it’s when people listen to Limbaugh or O’Reilly and consider that the news that makes me wonder. how does cutting off someone with another view and giving out ridiculous falsehoods become news?
i will agree that Diane Rehm is biased but she does have diversity of opinion on her show. but i don’t like how she cuts off people sometime and her hostility does show.

Human Intelligence—yeah you hold onto Rush for you “information.” don’t think for yourself, have your opinion told to you. Rush really knows how to impart fair unbiased news. most of NPR is funded by community members and charitable fundations.

CatStevens,
OBAMA + ACORN + CLINTON (GREENSPAN)
= PERFECT 3 ECONOMY/FINANCIAL CRIMINALS

UUMMMM?
Has anybody noticed that while the auto companys were chastised for flying into washington on their little mini jets….
O’beyme is flying a monster sized jet “EVERYWHERE!!!!!!”
And are these trips IMPORTANT?…..He’s stumping for a stimulas bill????? That is already a foregone conclusion????
All you Obama supporters out there….Ya’ll need to tell your Hero there…it looks bad…..
But then…you listen to his words…instead of seeing what he does……Two different things there….
Ohhhh nevermind….I get it…gotta stay on TV….He’s an attention junkie, and will do whatever he can to make the news everyday….even if it destroys our country…..

Marco, good post on Lincolns speech, just one correction. Lincoln was not racist, he had no hatred for the people. He was a segragrist, he did not care for the mixing of people in Society. But the point is pretty much the same.

Here is a glimpse of how two people think. Two men were asked how they thought history would see them.
Respondent #1 – “Fellow citizen, we cannot escape history, we of this Congress and Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trail though which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
Respondent #2 – “History. We won’t know. We’ll all be dead.”
The two respondents are George W. Bush and Abraham Lincoln. Here’s my question to you. Which man said which statement?
I’ll bet you a million dollars you got it right.
Send this to your friends and win a million dollars too!
Peace.

Paul Wall, you say Lincoln had a change of heart? Then why did he not free slaves in the Union States that he was legally in charge of rather than in the Confederate States that he did not have Legal jurisdiction over? He did to gain support for the Union to keep the MONEY from the South flowing North. BTW, most Slave vessels ported in the Northern States and the slave tehn sold to the Souther Industries.

Paul Wall there is a reason why Fox News is numero uno in every category in the nielsen ratings.
They report we decide

bdaman—the same reason there are more unedacated american then there are educated ones. don’t get me wrong Fox News rocks. the talk shows are trash. i mean Limbaugh (President and Director of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies) isn’t educated. he runs his mouth and people eat it up.
hate feels better than agreement.
plus these people (like O’Reily) say the most outrageous things that alot of people want to say but dare not express their thoughts in public for fear of ridicule.

“why Fox News is numero uno in every category in the nielsen ratings.
They report we decide”
Even by Fox News standards, yesterday was more embarrassing than most. In the morning, the Senate Republican Communications Center sent Fox News a press release, talking about how the economic stimulus bill grew over time. Shortly thereafter, Fox News’ Jon Scott was on the air talking about the package: “We thought we’d take a look back at the bill, how it was born, and how it grew, and grew, and grew.”
As it turns out, Fox News took the Republicans’ materials and aired it, word for word, without telling viewers that the “story” was a creation of Republican officials. It was so blatant, Fox News’ on-screen graphic included the identical typo made in the original GOP document, making it obvious that the network used a party press release as a news script.

“One, Mr Lincoln invade another country illegally, The Confederate States were legally seperated from the Union for Economic reasons, Slavery was introduced half way through the war with the Emancipation Proclomation, which, by the way, only ended slavery in the Confederacy, NOT in the United States.”
Ahh yes the Southern traitor lovers favorite lie that secession was about economic reasons and had nothing to do with slavery.

Bush and Cheney ruined our economy and ruined our image worldwide. I bet Lincoln and all our other great Presidents were spinning in their graves over all the evil these two wrought on America! News flash: Faux News all lies,hate and Rightwing propaganda 24/7. Only the braindead could possibly watch the garbage spewed on Faux News.Watch a old Nazi propaganda newsreel and you see so many similarities to Faux News!

@AJ,
I don’t live in the South. My ancesters were all in the Union Army.
You REALLY NEED to do some reading. AND, I don’t mean what they give you to read in our PUBLIC school System.
HERE ARE LINCOLN’s Words. It is FACT:
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“I say then I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, — that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
- Abraham Lincoln
September 18, 1858
During the Fourth Debate with Senator Stephan A. Douglas
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Judge for Yourself. Stop calling people names.

AsianGOP:”Wake up people!!! It was not the Republicans who got us into this mess. It was the liberal, socialist Dems who insisted poor people get mortgages… ACORN, Obama and Clinton(through Greenspan)”
Keep pushing that repressed, powerless, the-buck-stops-over-there Republican line. You can see how well it worked in 2008. Those half-truths and fabrications may make you feel better when you listen to them on the radio, but the typical voter is informed enough to vote based on reality and our government reflects that. It’ll be interesting to see what the Senate looks like in 2011, after the last of the Bush Senators (elected on his coattails) stand for election. Well, the ones who haven’t already announced retirement at the prospect that is.

ajax—read the emancipation proclamation.

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude (1865)…that’s is Union and Confederate States. this is in the constitution. the neocon revisionist history that says slavery remained legal in the “North” and wrong and disingenuous.

Any fool who still thinks that “The North Invaded a Sovereign Nation” needs to read a damn history book. The Southern traitors fired the first shots at Federal forces at Ft. Sumter – not the other way around. DUH.

For Ajax, et al.:
Republicans in all eras have said what they had to to get elected. Democrats also. What sets Lincoln apart is that he evidently did not feel the need to “live down to” his campaign rhetoric!
That said, I think it is quite well documented that Lincoln was by no means a racial-equality ideologue: he did what he did out of a sense of necessity, allowing the extremely extenuating circumstances of his time to bring out the best aspects of his character rather than the worst. Lincoln had grave misgivings about emancipation – believing that it could not even be successful except if carried out gradually and over a period of a century or more. But Lincoln realized that the first step had to be taken, and that the Union would be lost if he did not take that step when he did.
On that basis, I think it is wholly fitting that our current President is – like Lincoln – a transplant to Illinois from another state… but an Illinoian nonetheless. Barack Obama is in some very real sense a fulfillment of a reality that Abraham Lincoln dared not even dream.
Let us all most sincerely hope and pray that President Obama may have all success in the years ahead, that he may be kept in all safety in the office that we have elected him to, and that his Presidency may go down in history as fulfilling the promise of Lincoln’s foreshortened life.

Its amazing that dems love Lincoln, when his hands are filled w/ blood…. Thank God that Lincoln was up to a good fight so that Obama can be where he is at today. But today’s Dems want to play everything out through peace talks…had Lincoln played it out that way, Obama would be the butler today in the whitehouse instead of the president…I see no one complaining about the blood that was shed for that war….and just as the blacks deserved their freedom, so did the Iraqis and their dictator needed to be taken out. Bush gave them the same freedom Lincoln gave African Americans….

dilligaf: “The Southern Army was smaller and poorly equipped yet they almost kept their own sovereign country.”
If only they had won the US would have two third world nations on it’s Southern border, lower unemployment, higher productivity (GDP/person), a lower divorce rate, and lower taxes (or higher services). But we have to live in the world as it is.

jhw539;
I don’t judge Abraham Lincoln one way or another. I posted his speech and asked a question.. which I have seen several answers to. Some good, some bad.
My point was, Abe said what he had to say to get elected.
The last post I made, was not to make Lincoln look bad, but in response to another post.

Does Obama know that Abe Lincoln was a straight-up racist????

@Paul Wall,
I did. Most people do not know that the Emancipation Proclamation was in 2 parts.
1. Freed all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
2. issued January 1, 1863, named the specific states where it applied.
So, in the first.. If a Confederate State had of rejoined the UNION, they would have got to keep their Slaves. It was ONLY AFTER none of them came back that he issued the second part!!!
Plus, the North have gotten rid of slaves, but the influx of Blacks into the North competing for jobs did not make the North too happy. Plus, conscription into the Union Army Caused a serious ass riot and I think Union Ships hit New York City from Cannon fire.

“The Confederacy never asked for “sovereign” status they took it. They fired the first shots in defense of tyranny.”
I agree.

‘…in defense of tyranny.” – too funny!

thanks for the history lesson ajax, but just read the thirteenth amendment—it makes things quite clear.

T, i agree with you. i’m willing to leave the land of Cornyn (Texas) but i hope you will accept me under political asylum laws. cone the Old South returns i won’t have a chance. when the fangs really come out i would like to come far north.

Paul Wall, the Souths beliefs on rights? Gee, look at the history of law in Mass. for an example. 2 years AFTER the War for Southern independance was over they had a law making it legal to beat a free perosn of color who was in the state for more than two days. I guess Mass was relocated from the south? I am not from the South by the way, I was born in Conn. but you are a hypocrit who believes the lies that are fed to you. And by the way, since the Republicans are so bad, you better return fire by insulting Mr Lincoln becayse he too was a Republican.

thanks, T. i know i am supporting alot of unemployed white people here in Texas.

Maverick American—that i did not know about the law you mention doesn’t mean i’m a hipocrit, i just didn’t know. federal law trumps state law. we all live by the constitution, no matter what state we live in (except Alaska maybe). the thirteenth amendment is the law of the land and has been since 1865. “better return fire”? what’s that all about? the kind of republican that Lincoln was are rare, most moved to the Democratic Party.
not all republicans are racists and ignorant, but you couldn’t tell that reading this blog or listening to Limbaugh.
if the civil war was today which party would be for the emancipation of the slaves. if you say the republicans i will laugh in your face. most get so angry about racial equality they get red and go home and yell racial epithets. don’t make the republican party the party it was in 1865, nobody’s buying that.

maveraick–there is rich democrats didnt say that

T – but you make it sound that way that all Republicans are Fat Cats. Truth is, currently, the two worst peopel in DC rioght now are Reid and Pelosi. I am in no means saying the the Republicans there are all good, but those two are going gaurantee our spiral into the Abyss.

Maverick American—”what I see of your post, you take everything Liberal Left Democrat as Holy and the rest are just a bunch of stupid idiots.”
you are right and i apologize. my emotions get the best of me sometime. i am sorry i came across so partisan and condescending.
i really try to respect people’s views. the internet is impersonal and cold and i think if we were having a conversation in person things would be different.
but i don’t believe everything the democrats are doing is great. i think the left-most of the party needs to be willing to make some conssions. i voted for the president but i did not voye for Pelosi or Reid, since they are not my representatives. and i think some things they do embarass democrats. it’s insulting and i don’t like how many democrats act.
i am a leftist by nature, my heart led me there and i won’t apologize for that. in fact i’m very proud of that.
but i do apologize for my tone and condescending words. i want to be a better man and that begins with an apology. i am sorry Maverick American. to you and anyone else i may have offended.

i wish we had more parties like in the UK and most of the western democracies. that would require so much more coalition building and compromise. this two party system with one always blaming the other is pitting American against American. why not have a labor party, a green party, a conservative party, a socialist party? conservatives and socialists could work together on some issues and greens could compromise with conservatives. people like Limbaugh and Spector would be in different parties. the more divisive a party was the less it would be involved in coalition building. anything beats this endless two party fighting. it’s just ping-pong—one year it’s the democrats the next it’s the republicans.

OK we know Obama can talk the talk, but can he walk the walk – No one knows – but it doesn’t look good for him. With people like pelosi and reid running the show such as it is. He is up against it – The republicans don’t have to do a thing – the pelosi, reid and franks will kill him taking away his chance to make real history. Yes he as made history being the first black man to be elected president – but what kind of president will he be? My hope is that he doesn’t let these fools take away his history they are so substandard they can only hurt him no matter what they say – they are losers all.
I pray I am wrong – but what do you think?

Even CNN spent all afternoon gushing over the Obama-Lincoln comparisons. Personally, after watching that FLA Town Hall meeting & the Cat plant speech, I think Obama is more like Xerxes in “300″, when the king speaks to the hunchback. “I will give you everything you desire…… You will see that I am kind”.

Sorry, Barack. You just don’t measure up.

As obama recently blasphemed and mocked specific scriptures in the Bible, spouting that “Americans had obviously not read the Bible,” perhaps he should have studied American history. He clearly is not aware (or refuses to admit) that Lincoln did NOT want to abolish slavery, and in fact, owned slaves.
Ignorance Surpassed Only By Ego, but did a great job as snake oil salesman!

Divided? Well…I guess you’d say that. There are those who work for a living and pay taxes. And, there are those who are too lazy to work and take our tax money. So, I guess you can say we are divided. But, not divided enough according to Obama since he wants to take more from those who work, and give it to people like Henrietta The Lazy in Florida.

The air headed progressive democrats and the equally dumb-headed news media sources need to quit trying to tie Obama and Lincoln together.They are as different as night and day.Obama is a far left wing radical and Lincoln most certainly was not.Obama is a socialist leaning toward Marxism and again Lincoln was not.You can not compare apples to oranges.

One of the posters indicated his belief that Lincoln owned slaves and did not want to free the slaves. The latter comment I know to be incorrect. Lincoln was willing to tolerate slavery if it would have saved the Union but he detested the institution of slavery; also, to my knowledge Lincoln did not own slaves. His wife’s family were slave owners.
Another poster made the comment that the Democratic Party( not Democrat Party unless one also says the Republic Party)was the party that opposed civil rights for persons of color. This is somewhat correct. Southern Democrats certainly opposed the civil rights movement and almost certainly one of the reasons that the once “Solid South” of the Democratic Party switched to the Republican Party is the passage of the Civil Rights bill of 1964 spearheaded by Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Incidentally, I am a southern white woman, a sixth generation Mississippian and descendant of slave owners and seven Confederate soldiers(all four great grandfathers and three great-great grandfathers). They did believe secession was legal as another poster indicated but they also fought to preserve the institution of slavery and not just for the rights in the Declaration of Independence. His forebears may have had more pristine motives.

Obama isn’t Lincoln. He isn’t a cheap politician. He’s going to cost this country a fortune.

Isn’t this Obama-Lincoln charade a bit contrived?
What does Barack Obama possibly have to do with Abe Lincoln? The comparison of one of America’s greatest to an inexperienced, unaccomplished man with NO political courage whatsoever is simply ludicrous.
Lincoln was a self-made and self-educated Republican of principle; Obama is a spoiled and privledged Ivy-League leftist with no principles beyond getting himself elected to the next-higher office.
What’s the connection, that they’re both from Illinois, or something? That they’re tall?
This staged self-flattery has the fake feel of a Hollywood product placement, like when you seen Brad Pitt drinking a Pepsi with the label turned towards the camera.
Give it up, Barack – you’re no Lincoln, never will be.