Sometimes, you just scratch your head at the stupidity
Sometimes, it’s hard to believe that Weekly Standard editor William Kristol is actually a member of a right-wing think tank because, often, there appears to be so little thought in what he says.
So, it’s no surprise to hear me make another senseless argument in an attempted slam against Barack Obama. For some reason, Kristol believes that, in 2008, America will want another warmongering president. So, in attempts to label Obama a pacifist, of sorts, he draws a strange contrast of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln.
In a fallacious historical argument, Kristol offers the following:
KRISTOL: We’re electing a war president in 2008. If I can go back to Obama and Lincoln for just one second, Lincoln’s “house divided” speech in 1858 was a speech saying we cannot live as a house divided on slavery. And he implicitly says we’ll have to fight a civil war if necessary on this.
Obama’s speech is a “can’t we get along” speech — sort of the opposite of Lincoln. He would have been with Stephen Douglas in 1858. Let’s paper over these differences, rise above politics and all get along. That’s not Giuliani’s mode. And I think in a war context, social conservatives want to win the war against Islamic jihadism.
First, I would suggest that Kristol actually go back and read those debates. If he did, he would have realized that Lincoln was not anti-slavery, at all (quit believing what they fed you in grade school) and the content of these debates would have easily displayed this to him.
But, more importantly, I am tired of conservatives trying to draw parallels between Bush’s “war on terror”, or should I say “war of choice” and the fight to end slavery (which the Civil War really wasn’t).
Another interesting thing is that, by contrasting him to the romanticized view of Lincoln, he is saying that, had Obama been around back then, he would have been on the pro-slavery side. Yeah, let that one soak in.
Needless to say, Kristol, in shilling for the right, has once again engaged in intellectual dishonesty.
I guess some folks will do anything for a check.
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