Obama Not Abraham Lincoln, Not Even Close

At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it--all sought to avert it. While the inaugeral [sic] address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war--seeking to dissole [sic] the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!" If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope--fervently do we pray--that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether"

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865

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This address given by Abraham Lincoln came just days before the end of the Civil War. The surrender at Appomattox Court House was signed April 9,1865. After 4 years of the bloodiest war ever in American history, Lincoln was still magnanimous to the South.

Just three days later April 12, 1865 General Ulysses S. Grant, asked for an Oath of Loyalty to the United States as a pre-condition to parole the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia. Once Grant accepted their allegiance pledge, they were free to return to their homes. Many were allowed to retain their firearms, and horses or mules if they had them. Grant understood these were essential for farming and putting food on the table, and yes, for self defense.

Grant and Lincoln understood the Second Amendment, that it covered ALL Americans, even those whom, only days before, were members of a Rebel Army.

Let us bind up the wounds of our nation, With malice toward none; with charity for all..........

The Civil War, war dead from both sides was more than those killed in WW I, WW II, Korea, Vietnam,and the GWOT. Actually more than ALL of our wars combined, before and after the Civil War. Figures given for the Civil War range from 625,000 dead to over 800,000 according to some historians. The "other wars" figure is right at 621,000 dead.

800,000 Americans dead, and that from a National population at that time of about 30,000,000. Almost 1 in 30 Americans died, yet Lincoln's heart, though heavy, still loved the South as much as the North.

Now we have Obama. Obama claims he wants to be the new Lincoln. Hah !!! Not even Close !!

Here's a recent summary of headlines:

Limbaugh on hate list
Second Amendment under assault by Obama
Obama at war with US Chamber of Commerce
Obama in San Francisco "I'm Not Tired" speech
Obama declares war on Fox.
Obama wants the Internet to spew only pro obama message. (Here's my reply )

The "New" Lincoln spends his days dividing this nation against itself. Obama is back in campaign mode, calling to the Left to stand with him. Where is his call to America to stand with him? He doesn't make that call because he knows, we on the Right do not accept him as "The President".

This ramped up activity to rally the Left, must be viewed as a dangerous signal. Obama is marshalling his supporters, not the rest of us Why???? Because we are written off as unreachable. Is he nearing a decision to go 'ALL IN" on his usurpation gamble, before his beachhead is washed away by the crashing waves of resistance by the Constitutionalists?

Steve