Obama and Honest Abe

What is it with this fascination that Obama has for Abraham Lincoln? Ignorant historians will tell you that he freed the slaves because he felt that slavery was wrong. This is not true. Anyone with half a brain knows that this was only meant for the southern states or those who have seceded from the Union. While some northern states still held slaves, the south was ordered to give up their chattel with the emancipation proclamation. So only freeing the slaves in states of rebellion.

Was Lincoln a White Suremist? See quote below.

"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I ... am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position." ---Abraham Lincoln..

Even though Lincoln died in April of 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment which abolished slavery was not instituted until eight months later, nearly three years from his "slave freeing" Emancipation Proclamation.

The question one needs to ask is this: without Lincoln, could there have been a 13th amendment? There has long been a historical argument as to whether or not a slave-based economic system would have been viable in the long run. And there was clearly a growing political movement that centered largely on opposition to slavery, esp. in the North. So while it may be an oversimplification to say that Lincoln, by himself, ended slavery; and it may be correct to note that he did fail to surpass the *accepted doctrine* of his time (that the white "race" somehow represented the pinnacle of all creation), it is a gross and wrongful distortion to imply that he was an enemy to Black people in America. Even if he did not believe that the Black man was his equal, he still made it possible for that same man to demand equal treatment under the law.

Another thought about Abe's fight for the injustace of slavery.

The EP was issued five days after the Antiem, Geo. Union victory. Abolitionists wanted the slaves to be voluntarily freed by slave owners and they were putting political pressure on Lincoln to enact legislature. In his 1860 platform as the republican candidate for presidency he stated a "gradual and compensatory" emancipation. That would basically give masters about 10 years to decide what to do and the government would pay ea. owner about $300 for each slave with an additional amount of about $100,00 if the slave would leave the US and go to Haiti or Liberia. In 1862 Abe had congress adopt a "financial aid" plan for this plan and intended to issue gov't bonds instead of cash. He thought that freed slaves should have their own colony and that part of their freedom would include their subsequent emigration. He invited some prominent freed blacks to the white house once and said, "Your race suffers greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffers from your presence. If this is admitted, it affords a reason why we should be separated."



So what is it with this facination of Abrahma Lincoln? Is it because they are both from the great state of IL? It has to be something deeper, or one would hope as he is now the leader of the free world.