Obama ain't no Abe Lincoln
by: Les Carpenter, Rational Nation USA Abraham Lincoln, a beacon of United States government statism, can not be considered an independent conservatives best ally in most cases. At least not if you believe in a limited federal government , Jeffersonian and Randian principles, and the right of self determination as it relates to the sovereign rights of individual states. That aside, when a statist is right they are right. The following, again given me by a faithful Rational Nation USA reader and attributed to Abraham Lincoln, is worth posting. The principles stated by Lincoln were correct then and they remain correct today. What is indeed unfortunate is our Impostor in Chief, while going out of his way to align himself with "Good Ole Abe" seems to have forgotten the following. Obama wishes to portray himself as the modern day Abe Lincoln. ...