Today is President's Day, a day when we honor all U.S. Presidents. Actually, this celebration was once two holidays; one for George Washington (the father of our country), and Abraham Lincoln (the unifier of our country). No longer are stores and businesses closed for this holiday (except for some Federal offices and banks). Instead, life glides past the remembrance of these great men.
Washington guided the Continental Army to victory against the greatest military force in the world at that time, guaranteeing the early freedom of the United States. He was a true statesman that rejected his own appointment as a new king, and was elected our first President.
Lincoln rose from the ashes of repeated defeat to lead the Union through the war between the states. He freed the slaves and sought to unite the nation, despite his glaring override of states rights. Killed for his views, he is still seen as one of the most luminary presidents in U.S. history.
Today, Martin Luther King garners more attention and more media support than either of these leaders. Today, Obama sits in the White House, surrounded by his socialist and communist czars, reigning with total control over the land that was once free and the home that was once brave. (Even the Republican-controlled House of Representatives rarely stands against him.) What would these two great presidents say of our times today? I suspect they would have a great deal to say, and do. Perhaps we need to consider that as we honor them. Happy President's Day.
Bobby J,
Get out of the deep-end! There are no lifeguards on duty.
....and I thought I was bad
Posted by: Dennis | February 21, 2012 at 05:59 PM
Revisionist history.
It was about State Sovereigntry. It was about forcing the Confederates to pay the lions share of the Nations taxes.
King Lincoln was a National Fascist as is most of the Republican party still to this day.
Posted by: Bobby J. | February 21, 2012 at 10:42 AM
I'm not a necon. I've always been conservative. The Civil War was principally about slavery.
Posted by: Shirley | February 21, 2012 at 09:50 AM
The Civil war was not about Slavery anyways. It was about Taxes. Sorry you have been lied to all tehse years. It is called revisonist history.
Yes slavery was on its way out. It was a matter of years. IT was gone in most of America anyways. Even if the war was actually about slavery, there was NO need to murder 600,000-700,00 Americans. Think about what you are suggesting. Murder is better than life,lol.
Gotta love NeoCons.
Posted by: Bobby J. | February 21, 2012 at 09:38 AM
Did we honor God when we protected slavery in the constitution? Were we better then? What about when our laws (and more recently, "Christian universities") outlawed interracial relationships? Better then?
And Bobby, when something as abjectly evil as slavery is in practice, the moral thing to do is just wait for it to (hopefully) end?
Posted by: Shirley | February 20, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Gee Bobby, when do ya think it woulda ended?
Posted by: Mimi | February 20, 2012 at 09:00 PM
I fondly remember those days, when we did celebrate those two great presidents. We were a different country then. America is what we were. Americans still exist to this day, in what was once called America. Sadly now, Americans have watched idly as our freedoms and liberty were taken from us by the marxist-communists over the last two generations. During that time our great nation abandoned God; and now, we reap......
It was the Confederates that fired the first shot of the Civil War, at Fort Sumter. The Civil War was perhaps America's most profound time in history, defining America almost as much as our Constitution.
Posted by: Dennis | February 20, 2012 at 08:14 PM
Lincoln, in the beginning, wasn't so concerned about slavery, he was most concerned about holding the Union together. As the war proceeded, the economy worsened, and his concern for the Constitution, that all men are created equal, he began to see how inner related it all was.
Had it not been for Lincoln the south would have left the Union, slavery would have continued for years, and the south today could be called Spanish-America.
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Posted by: Powerball | February 20, 2012 at 06:54 PM
Lincoln sarted an illegal war that needlesly killed 600,000+ Americans. He was an ego maniac.
Slavery would have ended eventually.
Posted by: Bobby J. | February 20, 2012 at 08:40 AM