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43. This is extreme Lincoln abuse.

Wed Jan 2, 2019, 08:58 PM

Jan 2019

Seriously?!

How about you look at what Lincoln actually DID?

If he'd focused on the importance of compromise only he would have never even been a Republican, or captured the anti-slavery moment, or won the election, or waged the Civil War to total victory and held fast against those on his own side who would have "compromised" (like McClellan) and achieved the abolition of slavery.

I don't know, maybe you're thinking of Calvin Coolidge or somebody like that, but certainly not Lincoln!

I mean, it's okay! You can say nice things about Coolidge, I won't mind. Just don't abuse historical figures as if they stand for their polar opposites.

(Who's next, MLK? Remember how he played by Robert's Rules of Order and reached compromises with the segragationists?)

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