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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wi) Quotes Lincoln to Convey Exact Opposite of What Lincoln was Saying
http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/ron-johnson-quotes-lincoln-convey-exact-opposite-what-lincoln-waIn July of 1858, Abraham Lincoln was giving a lengthy, anti-slavery speech in Chicago and one of the arguments he presented was that the actions of the framers of the Constitution demonstrated their intentions to phase-out slavery:
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Now, let's fast forward 157 years into the future, to present day: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson just took the "let us then turn this government back in the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it" line out of the speech and posted it on his facebook page to recognize Lincoln's birthday.
Considering that Johnson is a vehement pro-states guy and opposes the Federal government enforcing Constitutionally-guaranteed rights and liberties onto the states in areas like abortion and gay marriage, I'm pretty sure he didn't mean to post a Lincoln quote that is calling for the Federal goverment to enforce the Constitution on the states. Obviously, Johnson or one his goons noticed that it was Lincoln's birthday and tried to find the most conservative Lincoln quote they could and thought the one above sounded perfect. Instead, they posted a progressive line from a progressive speech from one of the great progressives in our nation's history.
The adoption of the Constitution and its attendant history led the people to believe so; and that such was the belief of the framers of the Constitution itself. Why did those old men, about the time of the adoption of the Constitution, decree that Slavery should not go into the new territory, where it had not already gone? Why declare that within twenty years the African Slave Trade, by which slaves are supplied, might be cut off by Congress? Why were all these acts? I might enumerate more of these actsbut enough. What were they but a clear indication that the framers of the Constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution. [Cheers.] And now, when I say, as I said in my speech that Judge Douglas has quoted from, when I say that I think the opponents of slavery will resist the farther spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest with the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, I only mean to say, that they will place it where the founders of this Government originally placed it.
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Now, let's fast forward 157 years into the future, to present day: U.S. Senator Ron Johnson just took the "let us then turn this government back in the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it" line out of the speech and posted it on his facebook page to recognize Lincoln's birthday.
Considering that Johnson is a vehement pro-states guy and opposes the Federal government enforcing Constitutionally-guaranteed rights and liberties onto the states in areas like abortion and gay marriage, I'm pretty sure he didn't mean to post a Lincoln quote that is calling for the Federal goverment to enforce the Constitution on the states. Obviously, Johnson or one his goons noticed that it was Lincoln's birthday and tried to find the most conservative Lincoln quote they could and thought the one above sounded perfect. Instead, they posted a progressive line from a progressive speech from one of the great progressives in our nation's history.
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US Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wi) Quotes Lincoln to Convey Exact Opposite of What Lincoln was Saying (Original Post)
Scuba
Feb 2015
OP
This state has the most amazing collection of throroughly despicable politicians!
Jackpine Radical
Feb 2015
#1
IMO many chedderheads love cruel practical 'jokes', evidence? I submit WIgop politics
HereSince1628
Feb 2015
#4
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)1. This state has the most amazing collection of throroughly despicable politicians!
Walker (and everyone hear him), Eddie Munster, Sunspot here, Grothman, the Fitzgerald boys
How do we do it, Wisconsin? Home of Bob LaFollette and Joe McCarthy.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)4. IMO many chedderheads love cruel practical 'jokes', evidence? I submit WIgop politics
Both The land of Sky-Blue Water and dirty-pool.
How long do you think it will be 'til Culver's flavor of the day is called "Industrial Sand"
IDemo
(16,926 posts)2. That they have the audacity to continue calling themselves "the Party of Lincoln"
should be a big enough clue that they have no real idea what the man believed.
dembotoz
(16,820 posts)3. they think it means lincoln towncars
not the old guy
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)5. Migod, there's another wonderful meme--
The Party of Lincolns