puke on Tweety Says Obama's Speech Was" Wonderful," And Obama Quoted

[Dinger]

from the "founding member of the republican party," Abraham Lincoln? I smell bullshit.

[Thrill]

1. He did quote Lincoln

[orestes]

2. Meh, they ceased to be the party of Lincoln when they became the party of Nixon.

[abumbyanyothername]

12. I think that Hoover certainly destroyed the Republicans

before Nixon.

I don't think that there is any way to square Lincoln's statement regarding the primacy of labor ("all capital is derivative of labor") with Hoover's American Individualism.

This Individualism continues to be a strong thread in Republican theology today. Along with hate and other religiosity.

[H2O Man]

3. I didn't see it,

but hopefully Mr. Matthews knows that Honest Abe wasn't a "founding member" of the republican party.

[Dinger]

4. Wasn't Lincoln A Whig?

[LittleClarkie]

5. No.

Republican. But the roles of the two parties switched quite a ways back

[Lint Head]

7. You are right. Anyone that has studied American history knows this.

Repubs basically don't know shit.:dem:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. At the beginning of his political career

The Republican Party wasn't formed until 1854, and I believed Lincoln joined ca 1856, in time for the Fremont campaign, but I'm not certain of that. He was Republican in 1858, when he ran against Douglas for the US Senate.

The Republican Party of Lincoln's time wasn't anything like the GOP of today--it was populist in tone (Homestead Act, Land Grant Colleges) and even radical in its views of slavery. It was co-opted by the rich after the Civil War.

[LittleClarkie]

6. Doesn't sound like such a puke really

if he's open minded enough to say he liked the speech.

[Dinger]

10. I Just Thought It Was A Weak Attempt To Smear Obama With The repuke brand

and I didn't like it.

[BunkerHill24]

8. Tweety is on fire tonight....he just told off his Rethug guest...lol

[DrToast]

9. What part of that wasn't true?