{"id":3394,"date":"2009-02-22T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2009-02-22T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T23:04:31","slug":"granted-its-lincolns-200th-birthday-but-still-this-is-an-odd-coincedence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/02\/22\/granted-its-lincolns-200th-birthday-but-still-this-is-an-odd-coincedence\/","title":{"rendered":"Granted, it’s Lincoln’s 200th birthday, but still this is an odd coincedence"},"content":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a push-back afloat against Obama’s embrace of Lincoln.\u00c2\u00a0 Picture me looking over a book store’s selection of political and current events magazines and seeing these two magazine covers a couple magazines apart:<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure the background of the author who wrote the National Review one, but I instructively trust the author to have a more interesting take on “Lincoln the Conservative”\u00c2\u00a0than Newsmax’s author by the name of “Gingrich”.<\/p>\n

The political battlelines were, of course, drawn a bit differently and the context of the times calls for no neat categorization here — there are certainly tenants and tendencies from the birth of the Republican Party that you can trace straight to today in what Republican Party politics preach.\u00c2\u00a0 But as a rule the Reconstruction Era Parties in the South had the “Conservatives” as your anti-Lincoln contigency and “Radicals” as those perceiving themselves as holding up the Lincoln legacy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The annual “Conservative Political Action Committee” always (reportedly) attracts some booths from Southern\u00c2\u00a0Lincoln-haters, wanting to set the record straight on Lincoln’s Federal Usurption of powers… though I imagine they attract a sort of niche following as the grouping trends toward thrilling to the words of Ann Coulter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There seems to be a push-back afloat against Obama’s embrace of Lincoln.\u00c2\u00a0 Picture me looking over a book store’s selection of political and current events magazines and seeing these two magazine covers a couple magazines apart: I’m not sure the background of the author who wrote the National Review one, but I instructively trust the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}