Isn't this the kind of thing you do after a president who accomplished great things is dead? Like did Lincoln give himself a speech in his honor at the opening of the Lincoln Memorial? I don't think he would have actually.
Also, the article I read about this on AOL, no one mentions who paid for this.
Like what? Cigars? OK, that was low. Here we go:
The Lewinsky matter is covered in an alcove dedicated to the ''politics of persecution.'' The display lumps together Newt Gingrich's ''Contract With America'' and independent counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation.
This just seems so weird to me.
Like did Lincoln give himself a speech in his honor at the opening of the Lincoln Memorial? I don't think he would have actually.
I don't think there is any depth too low for Lincoln to have sunk to. If he could have, he would have. In many ways, he was the prototype for Bill Clinton.
Oops,sorry about the hyperlink. I was nakking when I posted, which I am doing now. I will fix it when I get the chance.
OK, fixed the link.
I do have to admit, it was nice seeing all the past presidents,and the present one acting gracious together after the bipartisan vitriol of the past elections. That made me feel good.
Erik,
You are talking about Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation? Supporter of the Underground Railroad? He is my favorite president.
Yep. The one and the same. He was a reluctant abolitionist (who once climbed out of a window to avoid the question in a debate). The main thing that I have against him is that he completely loused up the relationship between the state and federal governments, essentially rendering the concept of the state impotent. We no longer have states as a result of Lincoln, rather provinces. Sure, we still call them states, but they are no more states than the provinces of Canada.
As far as the South goes, well, I would have been much harder on them after the Civil War. Lincoln, on the other hand, was so hot to force his centralized vision on the nation that he rushed to normalization and used that to ram a whole host of awful ideas on the nation.
Pansy quipped:"Like what? Cigars?"
OWWWWWWWW!!!!!!ZZZZZZZZZZZING!!!! Dang Pansy!! that one stung just a leeeetle!(heehee!!)
Erik,
In your opinion,do you think there was a better
candidate at the time to have done a better job?
As far as the South goes, well, I would have been much harder on them after the Civil War. Lincoln, on the other hand, was so hot to force his centralized vision on the nation that he rushed to normalization and used that to ram a whole host of awful ideas on the nation.
As far as being harder on the south goes, I
tend to think I am pretty as pro-north as one can
get, yet I tend to think Lincoln's assasination was a blow to helping this country heal after the Civil War and assimilating us back into one country. Many of the republicans at the time did not like his lenient stance towards the south. I read that perhaps there would be no KKK had Lincoln not been assasinated and race relations would be better because the south would have healed faster. Perhaps I read these things with more "yeah, if only" emotion than logic. What are your thoughts?
I stand with the Republicans who wanted to be much harder on the south. Lincoln was trying to rush to normalization and, in an effort to prevent the same thing from happening again, radically changed the relation of all the states to the federal government, not just the south.
Had I been President, the South would have been put on a conditional track for readmission, with fifty years as Provinces, with full duties of taxation, but representation handled by way of consuls, two from each state, who would represent, by petition only (no voting), the wants and needs of the people. Governors would have been appointed by the President and all state legistlatures would have been called provisional, with full veto power (no overrides) resting with the military governors. Then, if they behaved for fifty years, steps towards regularization could have been taken.
This sounds draconian and a violation of subsidiarity, but what could be more of a violation of subsidiarity than slavery? The South had it coming. The KuKluxers are much like Mohameddans: if they were punished severely for their KuKluxery, they would have backed down. They talk honor and courage, but remember, they are the ones wearing bed sheets. If they had been rounded up and sent off to hard labor in Alaska or West Texas or Utah or something, they would have sung a different tune (not Dixie).
What really gets me is that these people are flying the Confederate flag to this day and treat it as an internal affair, as if it were up to them to make that decision. If I were the President today, I would use the US Army to put down any state that still flew the banner from its state house. Period. I don't understand why it is that we have a federal government that takes an interest in protecting some stupid owl at the cost of thousands of Californian jobs and then ignores backwater states with a history of very bad behavior who insist on flying a rebel banner. Instead we have to make Iraq safe for pornography and abortion.
What really gets me is that these people are flying the Confederate flag to this day and treat it as an internal affair, as if it were up to them to make that decision. If I were the President today, I would use the US Army to put down any state that still flew the banner from its state house. Period. I don't understand why it is that we have a federal government that takes an interest in protecting some stupid owl at the cost of thousands of Californian jobs and then ignores backwater states with a history of very bad behavior who insist on flying a rebel banner. Instead we have to make Iraq safe for pornography and abortion. I feel ya on this one.