(Lincoln to Obama) - The American Civil War: 150 Years Later. It is Immeasurably Fitting that...

[Libertas1776]

On the occasion of the upcoming Sesquicentennials of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg (amongst so many other battles), the Gettysburg Address, the adoption of the 13th Amendment, the defeat of the Confederacy and the preservation of the Union, it is immeasurably fitting that an African American president will sit where Abraham Lincoln sat 150 years ago.


Lincoln was not a perfect man (no man is) or a perfect president (no president will ever be) but he, along with the hundreds of thousands who shed their blood in that conflict to preserve the Union, set the ball rolling for what we accomplished in 2008 and this past Tuesday.



150 years is a long time, but we have also come a long way. Nonetheless, to paraphrase Robert Frost, this nation has miles to go before we sleep.

[BlueinOhio]

1. Just Think

The roles are reversed. The Republicans are the ones carrying the torch for the confederates and the Democrats are the Union.

[Libertas1776]

2. Indeed.

While it took decades for the switch to occur, perhaps the best analogy i can come up with is it was like to locomotives, one GOP and one Democratic, collided with each other, but continued on their journeys afterward. The Democrats kept their advocacy of working for the common man but picked up the the ideas of improving race relations and enfranchising minorities that the GOP once held a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. The GOP kept their love of big business and money, but also picked up the batshit crazy, bible thumping, racist vote that once comprised the Democrat's Solid South vote.