Trouble Ahead: Dear Leader Invokes Lincoln

In the sci-fi film “2010: The Year We Make Contact,” Presidential adviser Victor Milson describes a particularly ominous presidential address: “He invoked Lincoln. Whenever a president is going to get us in trouble, they always use Lincoln.” Comrade Obama’s speech on the deficit is the most recent illustration of that axiom. “We believe, in the words of our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, that through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves,” intoned Obama, confident that his invocation to Abraham the Destroyer would sanctify the collectivist harangue that followed. That phrase served as the … Continue reading Trouble Ahead: Dear Leader Invokes Lincoln