Obama Speech About Abraham Lincoln

Speech delivered by President Obama (then Senator Obama) about Abraham Lincoln delivered at the dedication ceremony for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL.

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[ivanthemodern35]

I wish lincoln was still alive

[FilmCriticOne]

If there was a President sent by God -- it was Lincoln.

Without Lincoln standing up to the violence of slave spreading lunatic -- our country would be far different today.

[agnosticification]

@FilmCriticOne Why would God send a man to ruin a nation?

[agnosticification]

@ivanthemodern35 He was an awful man.

[skudaarkaat1]

@anthonyusman How do you breathe and see where you're going with your head so far up your ass?

[HIimjohnnyknoxville1]

@FilmCriticOne hell even obama wouldn't be president without Lincoln

[ChristianHolloway7]

@FilmCriticOne jfk was better

[anthonyusman]

@FilmCriticOne Abe Lincoln was a racist and he freed the slaves because it was politically (and strategically) the best move to make.

[kpeacesmith]

@FilmCriticOne ..I humbly disagree, slavery was dissipating on its own. To prematurely end slavery and in the process lose 600,000 American lives all to satisfy one's own moral conscience was an unwise conviction. Slavery was virtually non existent in Europe at that time. Although I admire lincoln's courage, his ferocious intelligence, and his brilliant rhetoric. Greatest president only after Kennedy, who possessed the courage to reveal the financial institutions that control this county.

[Coffeeisnecessary]

@kimbobored9 Why?

[kimbobrand7]

If Lincoln is still alive he would be 202 years old!!!!

[SouthernFriedHoney]

@TheBoberton There was history --- published AT THE TIME. The Norris statement was published in several NY papers, Lee himself wrote about those to his sons. Got that?

Plus, Reading the Man, by Pryor, explains all that. She based her book on Lee's own papers. GO read the book.