Is that right?  55 percent of the likely voters in 2010 have no idea what it is Socialism?  Or, correction– and  more to the point, 55 percent of “likely voters” think Obama is a socialist.

Even Ron Paul doesn’t fall for that line.  Then again, Ron Paul is… Ron Paul, and not every other Republican.
Mental note: I’ve been meaning to listen to the various talk radio hosts to guess the size of each hosts’ spit glass.

Maybe there’s nothing all that new here.  Let me at it for a minute, and I will show references to every president being called “Socialist” post McKinley up to Harding, and post Calvin Coolidge.  (Note that would be Representative Barber, in his ad with various Founding Fathers — railed against… the Progressive Income Tax!)  Meantime, our Socialists aren’t even really Socialists. 

To be sure, here’s the first four images that get tracked when you google Obama and Socialism.

Strangely, I have to go to the next row to get to the Heath Ledger image that got the “Socialism” tag affixed to it.

But wait.  That last one is a little bit weird, isn’t it?  Is there any way to comment on it other than to say “um.  erm.  huh.”

Lincoln abounds in today’s imaginings.  Just ask Oliver North.

And, just to make sure I got the point, he added: “Yesterday we took our kids to Charleston. We went to the Citadel and out to the point where they fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. I’m a ‘Damned Yankee.’ I believe slavery was evil. But the way our government is acting today, I think I understand why the South seceded.”

That’s strong stuff from an educated man who took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic” and served our country in uniform. The April 12-13, 1861 bombardment of Fort Sumter he referred to began the bloodiest confrontation in American history. Academics still debate whether Presidents James Buchanan and his successor, Abraham Lincoln, could have prevented the cataclysm over states rights. Sadly, the Obama administration, by ineptness or design seems intent on enflaming similar disputes through repeated assertions of federal “authority.”

This is a different historical conversation than Rick Barber is having with Abraham Lincoln.

Now that’s more like the Obama – Lincoln Chains Cartoon!

I need a roll call on where does everyone stand on the 13th and 14th Amendments.

… and… Abraham Lincoln was… what?

In the Siena survey, Lincoln is No. 3. He leads all presidents in ability to compromise, executive appointments, executive ability and domestic accomplishments — i.e., preserving the Union.

But not even Lincoln is safe from the new revisionism. The Texas Board of Education revised school curriculums to soften slavery as a cause of the Civil War. At the CPAC conference last February, one Thomas DiLorenzo led a seminar on the war’s origins. He is author of “The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War.”

The “real” Lincoln, as seen by DiLorenzo, was committed to mercantilism — or socialism as it is interpreted — as well as to “contralized government and the pursuit of empire.”

Gad, I hate the Texas Board of Education.  But at least they’re not much into reframing Lincoln to slide neatly and squarely into your own ideology — hm?

It could be worse.  I’ve seen worse debates.

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