We’ve found another leader for the ages:
I have chosen to support his President because, for my countrymen, President Bush is our Lincoln. He has freed our people from oppression, slavery and injustice. Therefore, I thought the NAACP would be in favor of our country’s actions.
Notice the parallels: Both men chose to defend those who had no rights and very few freedoms. Both men took a highly unpopular stand, regardless of public opinion, in the midst of their first term, not because it was politically expedient, but because it was right. Both men extended the rights of education, equality and the freedom of speech and vote to a people who had lived under oppression for years. In the South, slave owners would whip, maim and kill those slaves who disobeyed them. Saddam Hussein gassed his own people, the Shi’a in the southern part of Iraq.
Neither man initiated any war. President Lincoln did not take action until the provisional Confederate army captured Fort Sumpter, three months after his inauguration. President Bush responded to the war brought to our shores only after the bombing of 9/11, eight months after his inauguration. Both men fully understood that taking such action endangered the chance they had for a second term. Both still acted, because it was the right thing to do.
When people talk about how Americans don’t know history these days, I have to agree. George W. Bush is like Abraham Lincoln as president the way I am to Lance Armstrong in bicycling.
Greetngs,
Well I’ll have to take your word on your analogy of yourself and Lance Armstrong…
But as for Bush, I wonder how it was determined that the supporting the FMA and the Patriot Act, along with the mere existence of Ashcroft as Attourntey General equates into “rights extending freedom of speech” to either Americans or Iraqis (as suggested in the quote)?