I'll be Damed "the Rascal" Is (mostly)Right

"You and your pinhead friend Mark might like to know that the so-called "famous Lincoln quote" is a fabrication, as countless Web sites are reporting this morning. By the way, why aren't you and Mark serving in Iraq? Chickenhawks, right?"

--The Rascal

Childish name calling is just typical liberal banter in should not be humored.

On February 10th I posted a quote from Lincoln that turns out to be untrue. I got the quote from Insight magazine. Author J. Michael Waller claims the quote was his words describing Lincoln's policy during the Civil War. The editor accidentally put quotes around it making it appear to be Lincolns worlds.

The point of the post still works. Obama claims to be running the spirit of Lincoln. Lincoln however would not agree. Consider the following from http://www.southernevents.org/lincolnWar.htm

"Clement Vallandigham was a Congressman from Ohio and a nationally prominent Democrat. In May 1863 he made a speech attacking the Lincoln administration's conduct in the war. He was arrested, convicted by a military tribunal, although a civilian, and deported into the Confederacy."


If thats not good enough to prove Lincoln's disdain for the peace movement then consider the following from http://www.civil-liberties.com/pages/did_lincoln.htm

". . . However, the Peace Democrats, also called copperheads by their enemies, publicly criticized Lincoln's belief that violating the U.S. Constitution was required to save it as a whole. With Congress not in session until July, Lincoln assumed all powers not delegated in the Constitution, including the power to suspend habeas corpus. In 1861, Lincoln had already suspended civil law in territories where resistance to the North's military power would be dangerous. In 1862, when copperhead democrats began criticizing Lincoln's violation of the Constitution, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus throughout the nation and had many copperhead democrats arrested under military authority . . . "

In closing, the quote was wrong, but the point is still there, Lincoln would have nothing to do with Obama and the rest of his ilk. Who knows maybe Lincoln would have deported Obama to Iraq.