Lincoln a Hero ???

Well, it seems that Bama-Boy wants to portray himself as somewhat akin to Lincoln. I have to wonder though if that is something that he really wants to do. Does he really want to compare himself with someone who was directly responsible for the death of 600,000 Americans? That's how many died as a result of Lincoln's election.

These people like to say that Lincoln "freed the slaves" with the Emancipation Proclamation. Maybe they should read it to see what it really did. It "freed" the slaves that were in the rebel states, not the slaves in the North. If the rebel states had rejoined the Union after the E.P. was issued, they would have been able to keep their slaves. Slavery was not ended until the 14th Amendment. Lincoln was just using the E.P. as an economic weapon against the South. If not, why would have have put specific language in it that reparations were not to be paid to slave owners whose slaves were taken from them? You have to look at it with respect to the attitudes of the time, not with current moral sensibilities. Back then, the slaves were property. How would you like it if the federal government was to take away your property now and not compensate you for it? Let's give it a modern perspective then... With the current leftists in power and all the green-freaks that are part of that group, it's not entirely unreasonable to think that perhaps one of them might decide that to better our country, they need to get rid of all the SUVs and pickups that the evil Republicans are driving since no true tree hugging leftist (aka Democrat) would even consider driving something so politically incorrect. In order to do this, Bama-Boy issues the SUV Emancipation Proclamation and takes away all of our SUVs and pickups without compensating us for them. How would you like that? People would be yelling that it was unconstitutional, right? Well, that's what Lincoln did. If Lincoln had truly wanted to do what was best for the country, he would have had the federal government purchase all of the slaves from the South and then send them back to Africa or put them in some US territory. That would have been a lot cheaper than what the war ended up costing, not to mention the 600,000 American lives that would have been saved.

In a lot of ways, what happened leading up to that war is what is happening in our country today. These days, we have a country that is moving away from what the rest of the country believes to be its core values. We have wanton spending by the leftists who are expecting the rest of us to pay for their idiotic ideas. It is no wonder that we have talke of secession again these days.