Famous Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln  At first Lincoln and America were reluctant emancipators, but slavery soon imposed it's own purposes on both our president and on this nation. America was largely indisposed to respect the humanity of the African-Americans here and paid for that sin with death and destruction. Our obtuseness was made manifest in the Jim Crow laws and attitudes of a century later.

A greatly fallen human race is rarely as honorable as the principles which it espouses and even Abrahan Lincoln had growing to do in that regard. His words reflect his growth as the Great Emancipator.

• "A house divided against itself cannot stand. 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." (House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858)
• They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not exist among them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist among us, we should not instantly give it up." (Speaking of Southerners, Springfield, Illinois in October, 1854)
• "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith tells me that 'all men are created equal' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another." (Springfield, Illinois, October, 1854)
• "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 year and the next, work for himself afterward, and finally to hire men to work for him. That is the true system." (Speech at New Haven, March 6, 1860)

 Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address pointed a grieving nation to the mystery of divine providence.

"He invoked a fiery biblical quotation: "Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" (Matthew 18:7). Lincoln used Scripture this time as an indictment of slavery and a formal charge against the American people...."

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." Emphasis added. 

NPS: Antietam battlefield

"By saying American slavery, he asserted that North and South must together own the offense. Lincoln understood that the people of the South would never be able to take their full places in the Union if they alone were saddled with the guilt for what Lincoln asserted was the national offense of slavery"

The Democrat Reaction to the GOP Budget




Bernie Sanders; on the left.

 Neal Boortz  "The reality is that even if the federal government got rid of all foreign aid and earmarks, "we'd still have a huge problem, because most of our budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense spending, about 70 percent of the budget. Everything else we do is only about 30 percent of the budget." That's not a quote from Rep. Paul Ryan who just proposed his budget plan. That's not even a quote from a Republican. That's a quote from Barack Obama, our esteemed Community Organizer. I bring this up to show that Democrats, including Obama, are aware that entitlement spending is perhaps THE issue we are facing fiscally."   More Boortz: Taxing Our Way Out of This Mess  


http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/bobgorrell


This should make the entire situation clear to anyone: 

Chuck Schumer; also on the left

"Suppose you and your spouse are arguing about your finances. You have discovered, to your horror, that you are spending $1,400 per month over and above your total household income. Terrified, you inform your spouse that this is completely insane and unsustainable, and that it must stop immediately.
"Your spouse nods in nominal agreement — but then digs in his or her heels against every single specific spending cut that you propose." Then...

http://terrellaftermath.com/

How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker

STRATFOR  "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the fifth edition of its English-language jihadist magazine “Inspire” on March 30. AQAP publishes this magazine with the stated intent of radicalizing English-speaking Muslims and encouraging them to engage in jihadist militant activity. Since its inception, Inspire magazine has also advocated the concept that jihadists living in the West should conduct attacks there, rather than traveling to places like Pakistan or Yemen, since such travel can bring them to the attention of the authorities before they can conduct attacks, and AQAP views attacking in the West as “striking at the heart of the unbelievers.”" A tad scary and it lets us know that we are all at war.
How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

When she was with us, my mother would find out our trip plans and invariably send us newspaper clippings about terrible things that had happened to people who did just what we had planned. We all took it with good humor and it is still funny today. This is neither that nor an Archie Bunker-like view. Think of it as more of a what- the-Columbine-shooters'-parents-should-have-known kind of article.

Obama vs. his own words

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Ann Coulter: Thanks for Raising My Taxes - What Else Can I Do For You?

Ann Coulter "...The public -- especially the taxpayer -- will always lose.

"That is simply a fact about government jobs that can't be avoided. What doesn't make sense is to implement a system that invites this kind of mutual back-scratching between the Democrats and public sector unions -- to wit, collective bargaining where there is no "management," but only co-conspirators against the taxpayers on both sides of the bargaining table."

Know what a demagogue is?

Dictionary.com  If you haven't recognized it yet, you'll see plenty of it coming from liberals and Democrats beween now and 2012. Republicans do it as well, but no one has perfected it as an art form as well as the left. Example: Search "Kennedy Bork"

dem·a·gogue –noun
1. a person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people.
2. (in ancient times) a leader of the people.
–verb (used with object)
3. to treat or manipulate (a political issue) in the manner of a demagogue; obscure or distort with emotionalism, prejudice, etc.
–verb (used without object)
4. to speak or act like a demagogue

ABC Preemptively Hits GOP for 'Steep Price' of Budget Cuts to Avoid a Government Shutdown

Media Research Center "Tapper highlighted liberal finger pointing on a potential shutdown: "Well, from the perspective of Democrats close to the process, I can say that there is a concern that House Speaker John Boehner just simply does not control the Republicans in his caucus."" Hence the term "drive-by media".

Check the MRC Bias Alerts

Victor Davis Hanson: President Obama's Most Amazing Libyan Achievements

Cooptoons

Victor Davis Hanson  "Conservatives have complained that opposition — especially in the cases of then-senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden — to George W. Bush’s antiterrorism policies and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq was more partisan than principled. Obama ended that debate by showing that not only can he embrace — or, on occasion, expand — the Bush-Cheney tribunals, preventive detentions, renditions, Predator attacks, intercepts and wiretaps, and Guantanamo Bay, but he can now preemptively attack an Arab oil-exporting country without fear of Hollywood, congressional cutoffs, MoveOn.org “General Betray Us”–type ads, Cindy Sheehan on the evening news, or Checkpoint-like novels. In short, Obama has ensured that the antiwar movement will never be quite the same."

NATO planes nowhere to be found as rebels flee Brega

Rick Moran "Who's in charge? A committee comprising NATO, the Arab League, and a few other nations belonging to the coalition. They are the ones making decisions on where to bomb, how to support the rebels. Given that both Turkey and Germany are against air strikes at all, its a wonder any NATO planes get off the ground.

"The world without American leadership. How's it look to you?"

America's exit from Libya ends coalition no-fly zone, campaign
"The United States has quietly withdrawn its air and sea assets from Libya and virtually ended its military intervention against Muammar Qaddafi's armed forces. This action over the weekend exposed NATO and its leading powers Britain and France as badly short of the air and sea capabilities necessary for halting Muammar Qaddafi's military advances, enforcing a no fly zone over the territory he controls or maintaining a sea blockade on Libyan ports."  DEBKAfile

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From La Presse, Canada: What “Obama Doctrine?”  "In the hours and days that followed, journalists, experts and politicians searched his comments for a “doctrine” that could be applied to other conflicts, such as those by Presidents Harry Truman, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, among others, that are named after the presidents.

"They all drew a blank — well, almost."

A Clash of Integrities: Moral and Religious Liberty in the Armed Forces

Heritage  "The report of the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group and the steps taken to date to implement the repeal do not allay concerns that the religious liberty and free speech rights of these service members and chaplains will be compromised to the detriment of their military careers. Congress therefore has a profound responsibility to monitor the implementation process and to assure not only that these rights are respected, but also that the 2010 repeal law itself is subject to continuing and candid reassessment."

We Don’t Need Know Education

Mike Adams  "You are (like totally) aware of their presence when you hear a conversation like the following, which occurred last Tuesday right outside my opened office door:"

“I’m just like not real sure what I want to do when I graduate? I like thought I would like major in business but there’s a lot of like math and stuff? Plus, the classes in sociology are like easier and like way more interesting? I just seriously like need to focus on like what I want to do when I get out and stuff?”

Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" On Campus

Chairman Ryan’s Budget Resolution Changes America’s Course

Heritage  "But in the end, let’s remember where we are and what Chairman Ryan has accomplished. Last year, neither the House nor the Senate passed a required budget resolution. This year, President Obama proposed a budget that more than doubles the national debt. In the first budget of the new Congress, Chairman Ryan has forged a serious path to fix our nation’s fiscal and economic crisis. The House, the Senate, and the President must now do their part so that we may reclaim our nation’s future."
Economic Analysis of the House Budget Resolution by the Center for Data Analysis.

Rep. Paul Ryan Unveils Budget with $6.2 Trillion in Spending Cuts

Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity  "In addition to the run of the mill demagoguery and repeated use of the word “extreme”, I’ve no doubt we will learn tomorrow that Ryan’s road map is the most disastrous thing ever conceived by the mind of man for a host of other reasons. It will be interesting to see if the arguments of Chuck Schumer, Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman and the rest of the usual suspects overlap significantly as they get talking points from the DNC telling them how best to respond."

Let the demagoguery begin:
Nancy Pelosi: Republican Budget Will Force Seniors Into Starvation

Obama Demands Budget Deal 'Or Else'...Tells GOP "Act Like Grownups"

Chicago Trib Religion Blog Thunders From Online Pulpit with Rebuke of Proposed Budget Cuts