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"But, in a larger sense," Abraham Lincoln was and continues to be, 200 years after his birth, the heart and soul of the Union, so "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
George Washington was the Father of His Country. And "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom", so was Abraham Lincoln.
“Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery.
His assassination in 1865 was the first presidential assassination in U.S. history, and as a result Lincoln has been considered a martyr for the ideal of national unity and human rights. Lincoln has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents.”
— From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"But, in a larger sense," Abraham Lincoln was and continues to be, 200 years after his birth, the heart and soul of the Union, so "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
And now, according to CNN's Kyra Phillips broadcasting from the Old State Capitol in Springfield IL this morning:
ReplyDelete"It was here in the Old Capitol that Abraham Lincoln gave his famous ‘House Divided’ speech. A house divided against itself cannot stand, he proclaimed. Sound familiar? Fast-forward -- February 10th, 2007 [date of Obama presidential run announcement], Lincoln came to life here as if it were 1858. We all witnessed Lincoln’s dream and Obama’s reality."
Snort.
Words fail me, Apostate. Sigh ...
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