Political Animals React To Lincoln's Death

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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I'm not going to participate in the whitewash. Laurak Posted by: laurak on April 16, 1865 at 3:16 PM | PERMALINK The idolatry exhibited on even the supposedly objective rags should put paid to the idea of a "liberal" media. It won't, but it should. Posted by: Linkmeister on April 16, 1865, at 3:19 PM | PERMALINK Are they seriously trying to complain that there was praise and admiration, but not quite enough praise and admiration? I'd say the grief was making them irrational, but they make idiotic arguments like that on regular days too. Posted by: Gordon on April 16, 1865, at 3:24 PM | PERMALINK lincoln was controversial and did things good and bad we still feel today. republicans need to lighten up and accept the sum of this important man especially now in his passing. geez, who's the whiny party now? Posted by: travy on April 16, 1865, at 3:29 PM | PERMALINK Nobody has mentioned the irony of Mr. Lincoln's getting shot with a revolver. During his presidency, Mr. Lincoln sent many men to their graves with the bullets of war. Posted by: W, The Great Prevaricator on June 6, 2004 at 3:36 PM | PERMALINK Let's take the high road and insist that Dred Scott not be mentioned when Buchanan dies :) Think we can hold them to it? Posted by: dude on April 16, 1865, at 3:43 PM | PERMALINK And in the words of Moms Mabley (about her husband): "They say you should only speak good of the dead. "He's dead. "Good." Posted by: hexatron on April 16, 1865, at 4:23 PM | PERMALINK Now is not the time to remain silent, not while the wingnuts rewrite history. Now is the time to set the record straight. Abraham Lincoln as America's Sun King Posted by: Alice Marshall on April 16, 1865 at 4:43 PM | PERMALINK I've had about enough of Aby worshipping for one weekend. I doubt chimpy will get much of a boost from this, and not a lasting one either. As bad as lincoln was, he looks like a towering genius next to johnson. Why is it that chimpy is always either smirking or looking constipated? Or is it chronic gas? Posted by: fourlegsgood on April 16, 1865 at 4:48 PM | PERMALINK I just hope there are no political statements in any eulogies. Those who were so outraged by the Taylor funeral surely wouldn't be hypocritical enough to condone such behavior. Posted by: KCinDC on JApril 16, 1865, at 3:52 PM | PERMALINK I, too, remember why I looked down my elitist nose at Lincoln: he was a useful idiot. Posted by: Hedley Lamarr on April 16, 1865 at 6:18 PM | PERMALINK Ding-dong the witch is dead, the wicked with, the wicked witch. Maybe now the evil spell will be lifted which fell across America ... Posted by: The Fool on June 6, 2004 at 7:13 PM | PERMALINK