Interesting article. Selected quotes follow: The Obama-Lincoln Bizarro parallels begin with their home state. It is true that both hail from Illinois, but Obama's and Lincoln's Illinois could scarcely be more different. Lincoln's Illinois was the epicenter of the newly formed Republican Party, Obama's is the tightest<http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2008/elections/il/president/>of Democrat strongholds. Also, the driving force that guided Lincoln and his Illinois Republicans was morality<http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/biography6text.html>in politics and law. Conversely, modern Illinois is home to the most immoral<http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/source-feds-take-gov-blagojevich-into-custody.html> political machine<http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2009/01/14/mayor_daley_seizes_land_for_unfunded_project>in America.
=================== Lincoln<http://books.google.com/books?id=Ji9HvH_WW1sC&pg=RA1-PA144&lpg=RA1-PA144&dq=condition+of+labor+his+whole+life.+I+am+not+ashamed+to+confess+that+twenty-five+years+ago+I+was+a+hired+laborer,+mauling+rails,+at+work+on+a+flatboat%E2%80%94what+might+happen+to+a> : One of the reasons why I am opposed to slavery is just here. I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. Free society is such that [a man] knows he can better his condition; he knows that there is no fixed condition of labor his whole life. I am not ashamed to confess that twenty-five years ago I was a hired laborer, mauling rails, at work on a flatboat -- what might happen to any poor man's son. I want every man to have the chance -- and I believe a black man is entitled to it -- in which he can better his condition -- when he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this day and the next, work for himself, and finally to hire men to work for him. That is the true system And so it may go on and on in one ceaseless round so long as man exists on the face of the earth. Obama <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=78330>: It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody. =================== Lincoln <http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/divided.htm>: I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Obama<http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm> : Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us.... Well, I say to them tonight, there is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. Read more here <http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/bizarro_lincoln.html> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285926 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
