The Phony Lincoln

 

The main stream media would like us to believe a lie about the so-called comparison between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln. The reason why this is a lie of ‘grandiose proportions” originates from a carefully choreographed story. For example read this CBS news report that is supposed to give Obama-Lincoln similarities.   

(CBS) Barack Obama's arrival in Washington by train today harkens back to the inaugural White House trip of the former President who is Obama's political idol: Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, our 16th President rode the rails through New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania en route to the capital.

The train rides are another symbolic link between Lincoln and Obama. The parallels range from the superficial - their tapered physiques, their young children living in the White House - to the serious: Lincoln freed the slaves, and Obama will be the first African-American president.
From the start of his political career, Obama seems to have modeled himself on Lincoln. Both were born in other states - Hawaii for Obama, Kentucky for Lincoln - before settling in Illinois. Each became a lawyer then served in the state legislature before serving a single term in Congress. Each rocketed onto the national political stage with powerful speeches and became commander-in-chief without any military experience.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/17/politics/main4731552.shtml

CBS seems to be more interested in propaganda then truth.Let me provide one clear example that shows Mr. Obama and Mr. Lincoln have virtually nothing in common. While serving as an economics teacher in a local academy I came across this quote by Abraham Lincoln.

“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.”

(Abraham Lincoln quoted by Russell Kirk in, Economics: Work and Prosperity, page 221)

The quote of Lincoln shows that their is a fundamental difference in Mr. Lincoln’s view on economics. Mr. Obama is completely opposite to Mr. Lincoln’s basic understanding of the American economy. Mr. Obama gives an illusion to Mr. Lincoln because of the political benefits he receives from it (riding Lincoln’s coat tails). But peel back one layer of that onion and you have a complete fabrication of the truth.

Read this article about the real Obama economic agenda and see how different he really is from Lincoln!    

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (8/19/08), taxes paid by small business people earning $250,000 or more each years will be distributed to those who pay little or no federal income tax. If a tax credit is $1,000 but otherwise the tax payer would pay only $200, the U.S. Government, under Obama's redistribution plan, would get a check for $800. Those who pay no income tax at all would get a check for $1000.

Obama Redistribution Program Reviews

Money.cnn.com

• Over half-a-million taxpayers with business income would be subject to Obama's tax increase. According to the Tax Policy Center, 663,608 tax payers with business income (or losses) fall into the top tax brackets and could be subject to Obama's tax increase. (9/08/08)

Manchester Union Leader

• Obama's plan...is failed distributionism wrapped up in pretty new paper. That isn't change. It is a failure of imagination. And it is a betrayal of trust in the American people and of the ideals on which this great and free nation was founded. (10/15/08)

Wall Street Journal

• Its a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he's also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans pay no income taxes at all. There are several sleight of hands, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of "tax cut."
• For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase, "tax credit. Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals. (10/13/08)

Read more at Suite101: Obama and Redistribution of Wealth Program: Tax Plans Punish the American Dream of Success http://us-elections.suite101.com/article.cfm/obama_and_distribution_of_wealth_program#ixzz0l0Xbpg66

If Mr. Lincoln could speak from the grave here is what he might say to Mr. Obama:

”Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Own Stories
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

 

Mr. Obama’s tree seems different than his shadow!