Comments on: Gingrich compares McCain to Abraham Lincoln.

By: Bush_MUST_Go

Bush_MUST_Go — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:33:49 +0000

Yeah. yeah & bush is just like Einstein.

By: ocralle

ocralle — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:08:24 +0000

Newt’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.

By: LauraP

LauraP — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:40:26 +0000

Really? McCain is comparable to a man who abolished slavery and helped establish civil rights? Jeeze, could’ve fooled me.

By: CruzBustamove

CruzBustamove — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:27:33 +0000

Newt does the best unintentional Kermit the Frog voice I’ve ever heard. “Here’s McCain as Lincoln along with Fozzy Bear! Yaaaay!”

By: BigMitch

BigMitch — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:52:44 +0000

Lincoln and McCain were born in the same year, I do believe.

By: whistlestar

whistlestar — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:11:14 +0000

At 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.

By: Bluegene

Bluegene — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:42:35 +0000

And 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?

By: Republicae

Republicae — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:14:44 +0000

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.

By: votenic

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By: PTTurboe

PTTurboe — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:14:12 +0000

This 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…)

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…

By: ktpinnacle

ktpinnacle — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:31:51 +0000

I 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.

By: njca

njca — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:05:22 +0000

Good 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.

By: The Skeptical Cynic

The Skeptical Cynic — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:26:47 +0000

McCain 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!

By: nycbassist

nycbassist — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:10:01 +0000

George Bush is Abraham Lincoln. John McCain is Abraham Lincoln. I get to be Abraham Lincoln next!!! I called it first.

By: danawonk

danawonk — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:46:28 +0000

All that they have in common is that they are old! How in the h— can Newt come up with drivel!!!???

By: jrod

jrod — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:40:40 +0000

Newt Gingrich. Please report to HR for your not so random drug test.

By: kathy

kathy — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:53:55 +0000

Clinton 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…

By: AlKhidir

AlKhidir — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:56:33 +0000

I 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.

By: jwill

jwill — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:08:36 +0000

Lordy, 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.

By: shadowbox

shadowbox — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:14:07 +0000

Only 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.