Euroseptic ohn Stinkin' Lincoln
Like Brits such as Lord Acton 'n Chuck Dickens before her, here's one uppity UK gal who knows-att Abe Lincoln --the patron putrid saint of damn fool libruls 'n no-account neocons ever'whar -- weren't no hero.
A lesson for Britain from Honest Abe.
At the moment, Barack Obama is trying to pose as the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Early in his campaign, however, he was trying to pose as the new Abraham Lincoln, the straight, simple man who went to Washington from Illinois. Last year Obama even went to the the steps of the Old State Capitol Building, in which Lincoln had once served in the Illinois legislature, to make his announcement that he would run for the Democratic nomination.
But he has gone quiet on that one lately. Hardly surprising. These days a connection with Illinois means a connection with the facts of corruption not the myth of Lincoln. . . .
I am not surprised to see yet more evidence that corruption is endemic in the Land of Lincoln. I'd call it highly appropriate. But then, I've known enough about Lincoln all my life to know that the sobriquet 'Honest Abe' was originally meant as irony. Lincoln was venal and greedy, and long before he was elected president in 1860, the people of Illinois knew it.
You no doubt think Lincoln was some kind of country lawyer who went into politics for noble reasons. Wrong on both counts. Before he was president, Lincoln was the highest-paid trial lawyer in Illinois. His clients included the Illinois Central Railroad, which at the time was the biggest corporation in the world. . . .
What drove him to launch a war against the South was the fact that 80 percent of the foreign earnings of the United States came from the agricultural exports of the Southern states. Lincoln decided to open the floodgates on a sea of blood rather than let the Southern states secede, as was their undoubted right. A South in control of its own foreign earnings could have threatened the fortunes of his rich friends in the industrial North.
Lincoln's moral corruption went far beyond greed and slavery, though. The late historian, Webb Garrison of Emory University, wrote that when Lincoln was informed how the federal army had pillaged, plundered, burned and raped its way through the defenceless Shenandoah Valley in 1864, Lincoln only conveyed 'the thanks of a nation' to General Sheridan, the chief plunderer.
Miss Synan goes ohn t' show how Obama, Blagoyebitch, et al. are simply MOTS.
'N you thot ohnly th' GOP wuz th' "Party of Lincoln."
S. Jones
Snaggle-Tooth Jones
in Damn Fool Liberals and No-Account Neocons, Obamanation, Revolutionary Roots, Secessionism Today, Snaggle-Tooth Debates The War of Northern Aggression with DeGrow, Sharf, et al., Stinkin' Lincoln, The Bonehead America Chronicles: Claremont in Colorader, The Federals
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Great post - highlighting the trouble with Obama, globalism, the EU, and the ahistorical "truth" about Abe - that being that he was a saint... she nailed it straight - Abe was a self serving northerner hell bent on going to war with the south, under the guise of preserving the union... First the war, then reconstruction - and "loyalty at the threat of a sword"... if that is the Union, you can keep it... I'll take regional/state's soveriegnty ANY day!