Posted by Chrissy the Hyphenated
For someone who made such a big deal about his admiration for President Lincoln, Barack Obama isn’t too savvy about the actual details of the man’s life.
Remember when the Laughing Stock Media made a Very Big Deal about Palin’s supposed “stupidity” in telling a Tea Party group not to “party like it’s 1773” until after the elections and saying that Paul Revere had warned the British?
The “we’re smarter than everyone” Lefties arrogantly dissed her for “not knowing” the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Uh, yeah. Except she was talking to a Tea Party crowd and … duh … the Boston Tea Party was in 1773.
Then they sneered at her for … oh wait … knowing MORE THAN THEY DID about Paul Revere’s famous ride. It turned out he was captured by the British and did warn them that the Americans were armed and awaiting their arrival.
Fast forward to this week when, in a prepared, much ballyhooed, and nationally televised speech before Congress, Mr. “almost like god” Oblahblah says Lincoln FOUNDED the Republican Party.
No. Actually, he didn’t. He was our first Republican president and he had a lot to do with shaping the direction the party took, but he wasn’t on board at the beginning. In fact, the first meeting of Republicans was held in March 1854. That autumn, Lincoln ran as a Whig candidate. So he wasn’t even a member during the first six months!
Republican Party founded on February 28, 1854
By ANDREW GLASS | 2/28/08
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8726.html
History of the United States Republican Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Republican_Party
Abraham Lincoln
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln
polination.blog 
Good work Chrissy — another widely-held misconception laid to rest. 🙂
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Chrissy, somewhere today I read that PBS took that erroneous comment about Lincoln out of their transcript of the speech.
And also that in 2008, Time Magazine did an article when Mike Huckabee made the same erroneous statement about Lincoln, and the author of the article was none other than Jay Carney, current White House Press Dude.
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Taking part of the speech out? Is this their way of practicing Affirmative Action for the president who has to be protected because he’s a Democrat?
I don’t say, “because he’s black”, because rags like Tiime do not protect blacks (or any other of their pet minorities) unless they are ALSO Democrats.
It used to be that blacks, women etc. had to work twice as hard to get half as far. Now it’s Republicans.
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I also read about that selective editing of Øbama’s speech, though I don’t recall where — most likely one of the articles/columns that Pete linked. Whoever transcribed Zippy’s speech edited out his little historical booboo. Affirmative action for historically illiterate democrats? You betcha.
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