ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the American president revered as "The Great Emancipator" for leading the war to abolish slavery, was really a racist who used offensive language to describe black people and wanted all Afro-Americans deported, according to newly published research which has prompted controversy in the United States.
Far from being the willing forefather of today's multicultural America, President Lincoln advocated reserving the west of the country for whites, supported a law forbidding black people to settle in his home state of Illinois and was fond of racist jokes. He used two State of the Union addresses to call for the deportation of black people and shortly before his assassination in 1865 said of the thousands of slaves to be freed at the end of the Civil War: "I believe it would be better to export them all to some fertile country with a good climate which they could have to themselves."
He also habitually used the word "nigger" to describe black people, something which would have shocked and dismayed the hundreds of thousands of civil rights activists in the Sixties who made the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC the focus of some of the biggest demonstrations the city has seen.
The assault on President Lincoln's character and record in a book called Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, was produced over seven years by Lerone Bennett Jr, the executive editor of Ebony, a magazine aimed at black Americans. Mr Bennett regards what he calls the "Massa Lincoln myth" as a 135-year-old problem, "one of the most extraordinary efforts I know to hide a whole man and a whole history, particularly when that man is one of the most celebrated men in American history".
The evidence of Lincoln's true racial beliefs is easily found, he says, in his writing and speeches. Lincoln blamed black people for the Civil War, declaring: "But for your race among us there could not be a war, although many men on either side do not care for you one way or another."
Although in popular history he is given the credit for the Emancipation Proclamation – which itself did not directly call for the elimination of slavery – he only issued it under pressure from other Republicans in Congress, Mr Bennett said. However, Lincoln was seized upon by progressive Americans following his assassination, which came soon after the Confederate surrender. There was "an explosion of emotion" in the North and Lincoln was "appropriated, he was used", Mr Bennett said.
By the late Sixties Lincoln's death was put in the same bracket by civil rights campaigners as the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the black Church leader. The book has prompted controversy among academics with one black professor calling it "a compelling critique" of the revered president's life. But Lincoln's defenders are infuriated by the attack…
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Let's not pretend Lincoln was a saint. And let's also not rewrite his opinions on the importance and difficulty of assimilation into Western civilization by incorporating his persona into socialist, multi-culturalist propaganda. If he wanted to deport blacks (who were dragged here in slave ships) then, there is absolutely no question he would demand the deportation of Zionists today, who voluntarily immigrated, but chose to betray.

That Lincoln was superficially as Ed says, is as Obama sat in that
pew for a score. Not hard to see why in either case, given the reality of that time, and this time.

Let us pray Obama can reach the higher angels in his decisions, and that his current cabinet picks are viewed by him as the most
practical means,

I hope Obama does better than Lincoln, because it was in large part Lincoln's victory and his strength that led to secession, and over 500,000 American deaths. We do not want Obama's election to precipitate any modern analogue.

Um, he already did. In an interview with Joe Klein, he made his preferences rather clear:

"Obama said he'd be particularly interested in having high-ranking Republicans advising him on defense and national security. 'I really admire the way the elder Bush negotiated the end of the Cold War — with discipline, tough diplomacy and restraint … and I'd be very interested in having those sorts of Republicans in my Administration, especially people who can expedite a responsible and orderly conclusion to the Iraq war — and who know how to keep the hammer down on al-Qaeda.'"

And yet, Philip bewails the fact that Obama doesn't include opponents of the Iraq War in his cabinet. Hmmm…Does this mean the Left's brief, torrid affair with foreign policy Realists is coming to an end? No more love for Walt, Mearsheimer & company?

It means that Obama has NO set ideas or convictions of his own and will make decisions based on his appointees opinions. He is so unsure of himself on national security and foreign policy he has raided the republican and Clinton crypt to fall back on.

Obama is gonna be a another f****** disaster.
The only hope we have is that Gen. Jones is a realist.

I am going to quit watching. It's too depressing.