Inconvenient Truth:
Barack Obama is a Rockefeller Republican.
The GOP is a disarticulating skeleton because it doesn't have a
Republican bone in its body.
Lincoln would be repelled...
... made nauseous by the clowns.
Try to get a Republican -- just one! -- to forward the following
excerpt from
Lincoln's 1861 State of the Union Address:
"In my present position I could scarcely be justified were
I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism.
It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in
favor of popular institutions, but there is one point, with its connections,
not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the
effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the
structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in
connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning
capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is
next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus
induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them and drive them to it
without their consent. Having proceeded so far, it is naturally concluded that
all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it
is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for
life. Now there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor
is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of
a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them
are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only
the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first
existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher
consideration." Read more: State of the Union Address: Abraham
Lincoln (December 3, 1861)
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