Presidential power
The Price of Liberty
by Nathan A. Barton
12/26/05
[O]nce more, it is time to remind all and sundry that IF George W. Bush is indeed walking in the steps of one Abraham Lincoln, that there are more than ever grounds for considering our current president to be nothing more than a dictator and a hypocrite who will use any means to further his aims. For indeed, to most of those familiar with history and not national myth, Abraham Lincoln is indeed that and more. To them, having the face of Abraham Lincoln on the front of Mount Rushmore, that 'Shrine to Democracy' is as inappropriate and upsetting as it would be to have his figure carved on Stone Mountain. Abraham Lincoln was nothing more than an elected dictator, and for that matter, elected by a minority vote even weaker than Bill Clinton's election and even more subject to claims of fraud than either of George W Bush's elections. Far from being a supporter of Black Americans' rights, he was a bigoted racist who cruelly and opportunistically used the abolition of slavery as the means to an end. ... he was nothing less than a tyrant who foreshadowed the totalitarian regimes that drenched the world in blood; and in fact, the blood of more Americans than every other president combined stains his hands...
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/12/26/nathan.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Nathan A. Barton
12/26/05
[O]nce more, it is time to remind all and sundry that IF George W. Bush is indeed walking in the steps of one Abraham Lincoln, that there are more than ever grounds for considering our current president to be nothing more than a dictator and a hypocrite who will use any means to further his aims. For indeed, to most of those familiar with history and not national myth, Abraham Lincoln is indeed that and more. To them, having the face of Abraham Lincoln on the front of Mount Rushmore, that 'Shrine to Democracy' is as inappropriate and upsetting as it would be to have his figure carved on Stone Mountain. Abraham Lincoln was nothing more than an elected dictator, and for that matter, elected by a minority vote even weaker than Bill Clinton's election and even more subject to claims of fraud than either of George W Bush's elections. Far from being a supporter of Black Americans' rights, he was a bigoted racist who cruelly and opportunistically used the abolition of slavery as the means to an end. ... he was nothing less than a tyrant who foreshadowed the totalitarian regimes that drenched the world in blood; and in fact, the blood of more Americans than every other president combined stains his hands...
http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/05/12/26/nathan.htm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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