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Honest Abe Lincoln: Just Another Chicago Politician.
theamericanboy.net — Lincoln was a lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives.
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- AugustusOsari, on 10/11/2008, -13/+1Lincoln was just as much a corrupt, lying bastard who should have been executed for treason as everyone else in American government in the last decade and a half has been?
Say it ain't so!
Or were you going for Obama throwing us into a Civil War and costing us countless lives?- bobhiggins, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10Are you speaking of the thousands of lives already squandered in Iraq or the thousands more McCain would sacrifice in his hundred year war to prove himself to his dead relatives?
The question is rhetorical; no answer is required.- JenniferInMO, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Perhaps Augustus is referring to the many wars McCain will start as the result of his bad temper and utter lack of understanding or respect for diplomacy.
- bobhiggins, on 10/11/2008, -0/+10Are you speaking of the thousands of lives already squandered in Iraq or the thousands more McCain would sacrifice in his hundred year war to prove himself to his dead relatives?
- bobhiggins, on 10/11/2008, -0/+16"It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler. Now, sir, in the present case, if any gentlemen, whose money is a burden to them, choose to lead off a dance, I am decidedly opposed to the people's money being used to pay the fiddler...all this to settle a question in which the people have no interest, and about which they care nothing."
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
Abraham Lincoln January 11, 1837 Illinois State Legislature - basye, on 10/11/2008, -6/+7Read the book, "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War " by Thomas Dilorenzo. I read this a few years ago and it definitely changed my mind about him!
- MsLaurel, on 10/12/2008, -0/+2Whoooo Hooooo !!! The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- quesi, on 10/13/2008, -1/+3Lincoln was a tyrant and ended States rights. He did, however, stand up to the Banksters - which was the end of him.
- xonahuia, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Lincoln was a white supremacist. Don't believe me? Google it to read articles and books that reveal this fact.
- Patrikc325, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Lincoln was Pre- Daley Machine
- Anim8tor, on 10/13/2008, -0/+0He was against his beard before he was for it. Why is Abe Lincoln a flip-flopper? Abe Lincoln. Wrong for facial hair. Wrong for America.
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