Gingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.
Gingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.
In an interview with GQ magazine yesterday, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich compared Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) effort to rally support around his indefinite commitment to staying in Iraq to “what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War“:
QUESTION: How does your background in history influence your political ideas?
GINGRICH: If you think about the current situation, it helps to remember Harry Truman running in 1948, or even Sarkozy in France. Sarkozy distanced himself from Chirac without being hostile. That’s what McCain has to do with Bush. And what McCain is trying to achieve by explaining the dangers of the world to the public is like what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War.
QUESTION: McCain doesn’t exactly have Lincoln’s rhetorical skills.
GINGRICH: In style he’s closer to Truman, who did not have the rhetorical skills, but had passion.
Gingrich, along with a long list of conservatives, have long sought to cast President Bush as Lincoln-like. Now, with Bush heading out of office, they are trying to do the same with McCain.
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Sorry, never will take anyone with such a stupid name seriously.
Besides, unless these a$$hats actually KNEW Lincoln personally, they should all just shut the fcuk up.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:56 amIs Gingrich attempting to compare the Civil War to our current occupation of Iraq? Does he think we’re stupid?
April 17th, 2008 at 9:57 amGINGRICH: If you think about the current situation, it helps to remember Harry Truman running in 1948, or even Sarkozy in France. Sarkozy distanced himself from Chirac without being hostile. That’s what McCain has to do with Bush.
When did Truman ever attempt to distance himself from Roosevelt? I must have missed it.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:05 amNewt’s happen when 63% of the voter’s don’t vote…..Back to some one’s wet basement Newt no one listen’s to your garbage any more…..~Blessings~
April 17th, 2008 at 10:06 amHow many aircraft did Lincoln destroy?
April 17th, 2008 at 10:08 amThe fact that they are both male, both have two arms, two legs and a head, yeah, McCain’s a lot like Lincoln. But from there the similarities end.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:09 amToday, both Lincoln and McCain share the same sentience, but then, Lincoln is dead.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:10 amI’d LOVE to cast Bush… right out the door.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:11 amSame $hit,
April 17th, 2008 at 10:12 amDifferent Day!
Moniker ain’t gonna stick! For openers, Lincoln had integrity - something which McBush doesn’t even know the definition of.
On Huffpo headline this morning is the travesty of ridiculous questions posed on last night’s debate. Shuffleopogus and Charlie totally exposed their idiocy last night by asking boringly inane questions. I think they destroyed their careers in one fell swoop last night. They were booed and should, instead, have been removed from the arena. I’ve never witnessed a more idiotic, embarrassing (for them) display on television than by these two men (resembling petty washwomen) last night.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:13 amAnd Newt Gingrich displays an indefinite commitment to staying in the public eye, like another media whore, Dr. Phil.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:13 amSomewhere, there’s an outrageously overpaid political consultant urging McCain to grow a funny beard and wear a top hat.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:13 amI have always thought of Bush as Lincoln like…after Lincoln had taken a bullet to his brain they were much alike.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:14 amActually, John McCain was Lincoln’s tutor during the ‘log cabin days’.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:14 amHe taught Honest Abe to read, write and lie, just before he left to mentor Jefferson Davis in the finer points of ‘how to secede without really leaving’.
flag pins?? You’ve got to be $hitting me! Who gives a flying rat’s patoot about whether one wears a flag pin or not when we have a president who is responsible for the unnecessary deaths of over 4,000 of our military?? WTF is going on in this country of ours? Have we totally lost our way?
It’s clear that these two nitwits moderating this debate have!
April 17th, 2008 at 10:15 amUh-oh… looks like Chimpy’s time wewaring the Lincoln hat is almost up…
It’s too bad the Republicans don’t have any more respected historical figures on their side to whom they can compare today’s politicians. How about Hoover? Or Nixon? William Howard Taft?
April 17th, 2008 at 10:33 amMaybe Gingrich is trying to say that we are still occupying the south after 100 years.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:36 amAnd what McCain is trying to achieve by explaining the dangers of the world to the public is like what Lincoln had to do in the Civil War.
Was Lincoln ever confused about who was Confederate and who was Yankee?
April 17th, 2008 at 10:43 amThis fits with the latest neocon propaganda being spewed by imperialist wingnuts in places like Redstate.com. Check out this steaming pile of crap:
Redstate: Iraq Just Like Occupying… Alabama
Today, RedState sent an email alert to readers to further push the point … making a, shall we say, novel argument (emphasis added): “Clearly McCain was talking about a peace time standing presence … Someone should ask the Democrats if they think we’re still at war with the confederacy, the Germans, and the Japanese given all the standing American armies in the South, Germany, and Japan.”
April 17th, 2008 at 10:46 amDumb_Hussein_Fox Says:
Was Lincoln ever confused about who was Confederate and who was Yankee?
I don’t know. Were the Confederates Shia or Sunni?
April 17th, 2008 at 10:48 amGingrich must have a degree in revisionist history.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:51 amNewt you can’t rewrite history. The world according to Newt. The American public will see right through it. But to compare McCain with Lincoln is a whole new level of stupid.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:57 amralph the wonder llama Says:
It’s too bad the Republicans don’t have any more respected historical figures on their side to whom they can compare today’s politicians. How about Hoover? Or Nixon? William Howard Taft?
It is pretty hysterical that they have to go back 150 years or so to find a respected Republican — outside the worshippers in the Church Of Ronnie. They occasionally sneak Teddy Roosevelt in there, but only with a certain queasiness because he was a Progressive. Otherwise, they resort to comparing asshats like McCain with, uh oh, Democrats like FDR and Truman.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:05 amSadly, there are diplomas being issued to people, based in part upon his work. What an intellectually-misshapen, morally-depraved achievement that must be.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:11 amGingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.
Well , McStupid is the same age as Lincoln ……….
April 17th, 2008 at 11:12 amJesus H. Christ. What a crock.
I guess Lincoln is the new Reagan.
*eyeroll*
April 17th, 2008 at 11:24 amWhy is Gingrich comparing McCain to a librul like Abraham Lincoln?
April 17th, 2008 at 11:33 amAArrrgggghhh! What Is it with Republicans and Abraham Lincoln? Lincoln had class, character, style and strength. Lincoln bore adversity with dignity and insults with forebearance. Lincoln understood the concepts of compromise and setting aside personal beliefs for the greater good. The current crop of Republicans wouldn’t know any of these concepts if you doubled their bribes to learn them!
April 17th, 2008 at 11:47 amImpeach Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
You are idiots. This is why the Republicans have been so successful in building up their position and trashing the Democrats. They market these associations just as they market the image of Democrats as radical, leftist cooks who are effeminate. The Dems will continue to lose until they learn how to fight back instead of believing that a policy debate will change it all,
April 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am“Ludicrous”
April 17th, 2008 at 11:48 amWell Lincoln, Bush and McCain all do have one thing in common, they’re all dead from the neck up.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:53 amGingrich, along with a long list of conservatives, have long sought to cast President Bush as Lincoln-like.
They would have better success if they try to cast Bush as a Lincoln log.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:01 pmLincoln split logs, John Sidney McCain III split from classes. How else do you wind up 5th from the bottom at Annapolis?
April 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pmRUCerious Says:
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Lincoln split logs, John Sidney McCain III split from classes. How else do you wind up 5th from the bottom at Annapolis?
April 17th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Hire Chimpy as your tutor ……………..
April 17th, 2008 at 12:11 pmThe only comparison I can think of is, McCain and Lincoln, both had nut-jobs for wives? Cindy has this far-far look in her eyes, Very strange.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pmI hate both McCain and Gingrich, but be fair. He’s comparing what McCain has to deal with with what Lincoln had to deal with, NOT comparing McCain to Lincoln in either personality OR competence.
These are the stupid comments that keep me from becoming a Liberal.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:24 pmIf “stupid comments” on a blog keep you from embracing a political philosophy that you might otherwise find useful, even attractive, then you’re one deep thinker. It’s a big loss for the progressive movement, to be sure.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:42 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
If “stupid comments” on a blog keep you from embracing a political philosophy that you might otherwise find useful, even attractive, then you’re one deep thinker. It’s a big loss for the progressive movement, to be sure.
Lincoln split logs. This fool is splitting hairs. It’s amazing to me the lengths some people will go to convince themselves to remain right-wing Republicans. It apparently requires a Herculean effort of constant self-delusion.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:02 pmIf “stupid comments” on a blog keep you from embracing a political philosophy that you might otherwise find useful, even attractive, then you’re one deep thinker. It’s a big loss for the progressive movement, to be sure.
That’s the problem. It’s not just the blogs. It’s not useful to remove the Republicans and replace them with Democrats, which is what the “Progressive” movement seems to be all about. That’s like replacing rotten apples with slightly less rotten oranges. My association with the Progressive movement occurs because we have a common enemy now, but when I see progressives taking the neo-cons statements out of context like this (something they’re always on other people for), I realize why the Progressive movement wont work, especially if the Republicans implode. Without anyone to hate, the Progressive movement will self-destruct. Even with the Republicans, this kind of thing is trying to play the Republicans game, and they’re much better at it than the Progressives.
I don’t care what the Progressives think of the relative merit of my support or lack thereof, but it IS a big loss to the Progressive movement not having the support of people who are smart enough to keep their distance when they see things like this. There are plenty of reasons to hate the Republicans without inventing more.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:06 pmLincoln split logs. This fool is splitting hairs. It’s amazing to me the lengths some people will go to convince themselves to remain right-wing Republicans. It apparently requires a Herculean effort of constant self-delusion.
Ding! And there’s another one who thinks that if I’m not a Progressive, I must be a Republican. Would you PLEASE start thinking?
April 17th, 2008 at 1:11 pmGee, when someone starts parsing in order to defend a wingnut Republican turd like Newt Gingrich, I usually suspect he might be a wingnut Republican turd like Newt Gingrich.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:17 pmGee, when someone starts parsing in order to defend a wingnut Republican turd like Newt Gingrich, I usually suspect he might be a wingnut Republican turd like Newt Gingrich.
I just believe in being honest. There’s no point in being like the Republicans just because their tactics work, especially since it’s wrong.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:21 pmAnd shoeless; not being able to distiguish between me defending honesty and me defending Newt and B) suspecting I might be a Republican just because I correct you is proving my point.
If the Progressives want me to shut up and join the crowd without excercising my critical thinking skills, then they aren’t any better than the Republicans.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:26 pmGingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.»
Yeah, they are just about the same age.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:36 pmHey, I may be a Democrat, but I’ll be damned if I’ll be called a “cook”, Mr. JMOHR!! (comment # 29) And a leftist one at that. I can barely boil water.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pmswordsbane Says:
I just believe in being honest.
It’s a shame that someone as “honest” as yourself wastes his time and energy splitting hairs in order to defend an obviously ridiculous comparison put forward by an ignorant buffoon like Newt Gingrich.
Unless you are a woman, you shouldn’t be typing on a computer anyway. A real man should be out rolling in ditches and hunting giraffes.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pmGingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln? LOL! I think not. Newt is looking for a job.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pmGringrich talking and dog shiting on the streets of Washington means the same thing!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:37 pmIt’s a shame that someone as “honest” as yourself wastes his time and energy splitting hairs in order to defend an obviously ridiculous comparison put forward by an ignorant buffoon like Newt Gingrich.
Unless you are a woman, you shouldn’t be typing on a computer anyway. A real man should be out rolling in ditches and hunting giraffes.
It’s my time to waste. It has nothing to do with honesty, so why you put the word in quotes escapes me.
On the other hand, whether I’m wrong or not might have something to do with it. If the article says Newt says something he actually did not, then I’m right. Anything else besides a direct refutation of that is a waste of even more time for both of us.
April 17th, 2008 at 2:39 pmNewt Gangreen oughta stick to what he does best…cheating on his wife.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pmswordsbane Says:
It’s my time to waste. It has nothing to do with honesty, so why you put the word in quotes escapes me.
I agree with you. Your lame defense of Newt Gingrich’s absurd comparison had nothing to do with honesty.
Now quit wasting time on the computer and go giraffe hunting.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:54 pmTHIS JUST IN:
John (”Proud to napalm little Vietnamese kids”) McCain has ‘passion’ only for promoting John McCain via a dog-like pseudo-loyalty to (Gasp!) GW Bush!
Old “100 Years” McCain, aka Keating5 McCain, WILL BE THE NEXT POTUS! If you still have doubts about this, you have only to wait until his campaign starts its libelous attacks on the Demo candidate! Old 100 Years attacks, reinforced by the Sunday Morning insults to all decency, will make the Swift Boating of John Kerry sound like The Sermon on the Mount! And the FoxNewsGullibility of the American (aka Murken) public will do the rest.
McCain and his Fascist Corporate Welfare enablers, of both major political parties, can continue on with the trashing of what is left of the Old Republic. (My personal apologies to you, Ben Franklin!)
There remains only to observe that McCean (notwithstanding Crawville Brush Clearing Bush) is, out of the total 300 million citizens of this Country Turned Consumption Zone, about the least qualified and least deserving to hold THE HIGHEST POST IN THE WHOLE GD GOVERNMENT! But, with the stunningly stupid KickMeAgainBecauseIGottaGoWithTheBestLiars Americans voting for him, this will not keep McCean from continuing the Greg Stillson Class insanity of George Bush. Faster, America, Self-destruct! Self-destruct!
April 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pmswordsbane refuses to “become a Liberal” because the actions of progressives on internet message boards trumps the good that would come from advocating liberal policies.
Weird.
It’s almost like he’s a concern troll. But of course, he in’t. He’s truly committed to helping progressives fight the rhetoric wars honestly, so he can feel comfortable joining The Cause.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:57 pmThe great historian and statesman speaks. Oh, and husband, too.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:00 pmswordsbane refuses to “become a Liberal” because the actions of progressives on internet message boards trumps the good that would come from advocating liberal policies.
Weird.
It’s almost like he’s a concern troll. But of course, he in’t. He’s truly committed to helping progressives fight the rhetoric wars honestly, so he can feel comfortable joining The Cause.
ralph: So the ends justify the means, is that it? The problem is I don’t see a “cause” I see a lot of people in opposition to the Republicans. When I see a problem with an argument, I speak. The premise of this TP thread is built around attacking someone for something they didn’t say. How is that right? And how am I wrong for pointing it out?
shoeless: You’re innane. Refute what I say, or not. Don’t act like I’m doing something I’m not just so you can feel justified disagreeing with me.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:24 pmswordsbane, I didn’t say anything like “you were wrong for pointing it out”.
You said, as I quoted above, “These are the stupid comments that keep me from becoming a Liberal.”
This strikes me as every bit as fatuous a comment as the suff you’re complaining about.
To me, being “a Liberal” means that I see the world a certain way, that I believe certain measures are the best way to address certain social problems, and that implementation of those measures will make this a better nation and a better world. It’s not about “joining a team”, although that sense of belonging (and opposition) inevitably follows. What’s important to me is a philosophy of governing and social organization, and the manifestation of the principles that form that philosophy.
Apparently, what’s important to you, based on your comment above, is that those who have the same aims as you, behave themselves with decorum, whether that results in social improvement or not. This is what I find weird.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:31 pmswordsbane Says:
shoeless: You’re innane. Refute what I say, or not. Don’t act like I’m doing something I’m not just so you can feel justified disagreeing with me.
Do you think you are the first wingnut apologist who has used the tactic of playing dumb in defense of some idiotic statement by a knucklehead Republican? I’ve seen this pathetic show over and over again. Everyone who is not serious self-deluded, and/or completely dishonest can see that Newt was shamelessly promoting John McCain with an outrageous comparison to Abraham Lincoln.
Now turn the computer over to your wife, and go roll around in a muddy ditch, you piglet.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:37 pmDo you think you are the first wingnut apologist who has used the tactic of playing dumb in defense of some idiotic statement by a knucklehead Republican? I’ve seen this pathetic show over and over again. Everyone who is not serious self-deluded, and/or completely dishonest can see that Newt was shamelessly promoting John McCain with an outrageous comparison to Abraham Lincoln.
(pointless personal attack ignored)
So how is what you’re doing any different from a Democrat acting indignant when a Republican attacks what they obviously mean instead of what they say?
You’re still not getting it. Try again.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pmswordsbane Says:
(pointless personal attack ignored)
So how is what you’re doing any different from a Democrat acting indignant when a Republican attacks what they obviously mean instead of what they say?
You’re still not getting it. Try again.
Well, you are strating to get it. Now you admit that you know what Newt was doing with his moronic attempt to promote John McCain by comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. I’m glad you finally understand. But it’s a shame you wasted so much time coming to this realization. Now, it’s probably too late in the day to go giraffe hunting.
(BTW, that was not a pointless personal attack. It had a very specific point.)
April 17th, 2008 at 4:47 pmJust like Bush, McSenile is NOT like Abraham Lincoln, but the zhit from Abraham Lincoln’s dog…
Just another TRAITOR to the USA…
April 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pmNow turn the computer over to your wife, and go roll around in a muddy ditch, you piglet.
There was a point to that? I guess I missed it.
Now you admit that you know what Newt was doing with his moronic attempt to promote John McCain by comparing him to Abraham Lincoln. I’m glad you finally understand.
Understanding Newt wasn’t the problem. Understanding why progressives tell us what Newt meant and then only using what he said as evidence when what he said was entirely different is a problem. That’s a tactic right out of the Republican playbook, and you seem oblivious to the fact that when you use it, you lose credibility.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:57 pmDoes McSenile have ANY economic plan to help America?
How about education?
Just a SENILE warmonger.
Singing “Bomb Bomb Iran”.
Yeah, just like Abraham Lincoln would…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
April 17th, 2008 at 5:04 pmSwordsbane:
Gingrich’s comment is stupid because in Lincoln’s case, the War of the Rebellion required very little explanation to the public. There was secession, armed attack on the United States by an enormous army led by ex-members of America’s own military. If nothing were done, the Union would not survive.
John McCain is trying to explain why an overseas military adventure with phony justification is really really important–and he’’s trying to do it getting Sunni and Shia confused.
The comparison is fatuous on the basis of the facts, the characters, and the style. John McCain is Benjamin Harrison, a shallow war hero explaining the annexation of Hawaii–he’s Warren G. Harding, a personable handsome fathead who saif ‘normalcy’ when he meant ‘normality’ and spent most of his time playing cards with his cronies while more of his buddies stole the country blind. He’s the child and the grandchild of privilege who has no speaking skills, no expertise, and no firm positions.
Newt Gingrich is both a mediocre intellect and a completely dishones demagogue. He doesn’t care that his comparisons are ludicrous and that they fall apart on the merest inspection. He says it just to float a meme that others can pick up.
Liberals have an edge over these movement conservatives in that they can look at history and see the atrocities and madnesses, even perpetrated by forces they sympathize with, and use them to refine and deepen their political and social understanding. These guys go back and rewrite history so that their team are the Justice League of America and the other guys are the Masters of Evil. GWB is Churchill, Mcain is Lincoln/Truman, and we’re facing Hitler in 1938.
Swordsbane, I invite you to cease trollish behavior and talk.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:19 pmThe trouble I have that concerns me ovre this Newt statementis, how did anyone arrive at the conclusion that Newt understands or grasps Lincoln.
Newt would have diverted funds to wage the civil war to private shipping trade and would have wanted the Gov’t to be drowned in the bathtub as Grover Norqist espouses.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:34 amNewt, aka salamander, supposedly studied history. Too bad he learned nothing.
April 18th, 2008 at 8:07 amComparing Mcbush to Lincoln?! That’s like saying bush is a great president. Oh wait, he’s said that already.
My, my!
swordsbane Says:
Now turn the computer over to your wife, and go roll around in a muddy ditch, you piglet.
There was a point to that? I guess I missed it.
I know, you missed it several times. But then, you also missed the fact that Gingrich was shamelessly promoting John McCain with a stupid comparison to Abraham Lincoln.
Here, let me spell it out for you:
“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological
April 18th, 2008 at 9:03 amproblems staying in a ditch for thirty days because they
get infections and they don’t have upper body strength. I
mean, some do, but they’re relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn’t matter, you know. These things are very real. On the other hand, if combat means being on an Aegis-class cruiser managing the computer controls for twelve ships and their rockets, a female may be again dramatically better than a male who gets very, very frustrated sitting in a chair all the time because males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”- Newt Gingrich
McCain:
“And I believe that the success will be fairly easy” and “There’s no doubt in my mind that… we will be welcomed as liberators.” [3/24/03]
“I think we could go in with much smaller numbers than we had to do in the past… I don’t believe it’s going to be nearly the size and scope that it was in 1991.” [9/15/02]
“There’s not a history of clashes that are violent between Sunnis and Shias. So I think they can probably get along.” [4/23/03]
“Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.” [12/8/05 (Exactly one year before violence in Iraq peaked)]
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and -women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom.” [05/115/08]
McDENIAL
May 16th, 2008 at 10:31 pmEven rethugs in the house are calling gingrich a has been with nothing to contribute. Why does the corporate whore media continue to treat him as if he has some folllowing?
May 18th, 2008 at 1:33 pmNewt has been smoking it again!!! This guy never stops!
May 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pmMcCain’s similarity to Lincoln is only as one of Lincoln’s logs…
May 19th, 2008 at 4:09 pmNewt claims to be an expert on the Civil War, but in making this Bush/McCain comparison, he omits some other facts.
Perhaps he thinks McCain would be a worthy successor because, after all, Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, and he watched while the government was defrauded of milliions by dishonest and coniving military contractors. He struggled to find military competetnce and he stood by while the Treasury cranked out millions and millions to pay for it all, driving down the worth of the dollar. All this and more. So by Newt’s standards, if McCain could do half as well, history would judge him to be an American icon.
Newt also forgot that Lincoln constantly questioned his own judgement, was conscious stricken over the losses, and suffered frequent sleepless nights. All of this while he could easily see Confederate encampments across the Potomac as he worked on early drafts of the Emancipation Proclamation.
‘Way to go, Newt. Maybe the new honey has got you addled.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pmOnly problem is..McCain and Gingrich keep forgetting: Lincoln was a liberal!
The republicans of that era were not “conservative.” They were against state rights. They were abolitionists. Lincoln was part of an anti-war movement during the Mexican-American War.
Gingrich claims to be such a great historian. You’d think he would admit this.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:14 amLordy, will newt never crawl back under his rock and stay there? Who cares what his opinion is on any subject. He is the only man I ever saw that left a trail of slime wherever he walked. He is aptly named.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:08 pmI think Lincoln was a bit taller than McCain. Seriously, though, is Iraq’s civil war in any way related to the house divided that Lincoln sought to mend? At least in the American Civil War, the British and the French had the sense to stay out.
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 amClinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon.
The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates – as CNN points out clearly
http://edition.cnn.com/ 2008/ POLITICS/ 05/ 20/ primary.wrap/ index.html
If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama
If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com
Obama Supporters:
Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…
Clinton Supporters too …. !
It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !
Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 amNewt Gingrich. Please report to HR for your not so random drug test.
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pmAll that they have in common is that they are old! How in the h— can Newt come up with drivel!!!???
May 24th, 2008 at 2:46 pmGeorge Bush is Abraham Lincoln. John McCain is Abraham Lincoln. I get to be Abraham Lincoln next!!! I called it first.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:10 amMcCain compared to Abraham Lincoln? Is that before or after Lincoln’s attending My American Cousin Ford’s Theater? Must be after since unfortunately they were brain dead!
May 26th, 2008 at 10:26 amGood Ole honest Abe was an Admiral’s brat who bombed babies in the morning and then had Gilbey and steaks for dinner before crashing and getting imprisoned by the nasty Commies and then came home to make a corporate million or two. yep that’s honest John McLame alright.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:05 pmI tell ya what, Newt.
Go to the Smithsonian Institute (it’s right down the street from your former place of “business” in case you didn’t know) and stand with your face a foot away from the cast made from Lincoln’s face a month before he was assasinated.
Then think about McCain and his (and your) self-serving political hackary.
Then shut up.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:31 pmThis has become some freaking unreal…. Surreal is more like it… Did you know that Lincoln was named Spotty Lincoln because when he was a Rep from Illinois he kept asking to know the “spot” where Mexican troops invaded the US to start the Mexican War? He knew it was a false flag operation and that our troops actually invaded Mexico.
Other “false flags” were The Maine, The Lusitania, Pearl Harbor (allowed to happen), Gulf of Tonkin (never happened), and of course 9/11. (Anyone who still buys 9/11 is an idiot. Sorry. The evidence that it was an false flag/inside job is overwhelming…)
PT
PS: Lincoln was assassinated because he was going to let the central bank charter expire and print US backed silver backed dollars. Same with JFK… And McKinley, and Jackson…
June 12th, 2008 at 1:14 pmThe VP Poll at http://www.votenic.com is now open!
June 16th, 2008 at 9:55 amcome vote your choice and view the stunning results!
Run By a Kid.
Bush is actually very close to Lincoln and I don’t doubt that McCain would also follow in Lincoln’s footsteps of Constitutional abuses, the suspension of Habeas Corpus, prosecuting dissent, militarism, nationalism, mercantilist expansionism and a general disregard for everything that the Founders warned us against. Lincoln promoted the doctrine of the Unitary Executive with no less vigor than Bush has or that McCain would. Like Lincoln, Bush and McCain have no problem destroying the the last remnants of federalism that once created the foundation of this government of State Republics.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:14 pmAnd Newt considers himself an historian? The corporate media is doing their best to rehabilitate this snake oil salesman. Who really cares what this propagandist for right wing authoritarianism has to say other than the corporate media and their masters?
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 amAt least he didn’t compare W to Abraham Lincoln. W is more like James Buchanan. McCain is more like Bob Dole. The newt is just the strangest figure with the strangest name to ever reach the national stage. And please don’t forget why he dropped out of sight in the midst of Pres. Clinton’s Monica scandal. (hint: because the newt had been engaging in exactly the same kind of extra-curricular activities and at least was smart enough not to become the poster boy for Repub hypocrisy). Please, please, lets ignore the newt and maybe he will go away for good.
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 pmLincoln and McCain were born in the same year, I do believe.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 amNewt does the best unintentional Kermit the Frog voice I’ve ever heard. “Here’s McCain as Lincoln along with Fozzy Bear! Yaaaay!”
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:27 pmReally? McCain is comparable to a man who abolished slavery and helped establish civil rights? Jeeze, could’ve fooled me.
June 24th, 2008 at 6:40 amNewt’s comparison of John McCain with Lincoln, we would have to first start with intellectual capacity. This is certainly not McCain’s strong suit. He is a child of privilege, and we can feel proud of his military service, and especially what he had to endure as a POW in Hanoi. Newt listen nothing else to distinguish McCain.
McCain probably has an average IQ — (90-110), but is this enough to guide this country?? That is the question. Also he admits to knowing very little about economics. Lincoln had a totally different type of personality from McCain’s.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pmYeah. yeah & bush is just like Einstein.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pm