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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident Obama: President Abraham Lincoln "couldn't win the nomination for the Republican primary
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30/president-obama-abraham-lincoln_n_1392504.html?ref=politicsright now" (rest of quote)
He invoked the 16th president: "The first Republican president, President Lincoln, who, by the way, couldn't win the nomination for the Republican primary right now," Obama said, "in the middle of the Civil War helped to make the Transcontinental Railroad possible, the land grant colleges, the National Academy [of Sciences]."
"This has not traditionally been a Democratic or a Republican idea," Obama noted about infrastructure spending. "It was a Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, who called for a progressive income tax. It was Dwight Eisenhower who built the interstate highway system."
Lincoln "understood that we're in this together; we've got to make an investment in our futures," Obama said. "It was with the help of Republicans that FDR was able to give millions of returning heroes, including my grandfather, the chance to go to college through the GI bill."
The president's remarks came just hours after he signed a 90-day extension of the federal transportation act, funding highways and other transit projects that would have run out of money on Saturday. The GOP House refused to consider a Senate bill, opposed by more conservative members, that would have provided two years of funding.
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Such a true quote by the President !
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President Obama: President Abraham Lincoln "couldn't win the nomination for the Republican primary (Original Post)
steve2470
Mar 2012
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libtodeath
(2,888 posts)1. Just on the basis that he didnt hate black people alone
would keep Lincoln out of the repuke party.
Facts are facts and all the greatness of this country is due to progressive visions and all the darkness and evil have always been conservative.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. Abe and Teddy would be drummed out of today's GOP.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)6. And Reagan too
He GASP raised taxes eight times.
pinto
(106,886 posts)3. Ha! K 'n R.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. kick for evening crowd nt
great white snark
(2,646 posts)5. K&R
Thanks steve2470, another great quote from Mr. President.