Honored to be a part of the annual @boyscouts Abraham Lincoln pilgrimage. Shared my fav Lincoln characteristic w them. His persistence. pic.twitter.com/vjCATFB8sN
Well, in fairness, Lincoln never once proposed a balanced budget for Illinois either. So yeah, if I squint really hard, I can sort of see the resemblance.
“Just like Lincoln persistably stuck by fellow Republican, Andy Jackson, in extreme opposition to the Civil War. Which, by the way, why did it happen? We need to focus: Focus. Reform.”
Well, Andrew Jackson was even more “persistent”, according to a “re-write” of history by He Who Shall Not Be Named….
President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.
“I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart,” Trump said during an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.
“He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’”
Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, died in 1845. The Civil War began in 1861.
Rauner isn’t Lincoln. Rauner can like Lincoln characteristics, Rauner lacks just about every characteristic Lincoln had, including about caring for people, looking out for the betterment of man, and actually having a conscious.
Rauner can ha docs favorite characteristic, but Rauner shares precious little with Lincoln, even as he and his “Democratic leaning” wife own the ILGOP, but… I digress.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
He speaks about persistence as though it is a wholly positive attribute. A person can choose to try and make a hole in a brick wall by repeatedly hitting it with their head. That also is persistence.
Lincoln was persistent in his goal, but flexible on tactics.
Rauner appears obsessively rigid in his tactics, despite their failure to achieve his stated result.
If Lincoln had kept doing the same thing after losing Bull Run, THEN the comparison would be accurate. Instead, he fired his generals and elevated Grant.
- 47th Ward - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:43 pm:
Well, in fairness, Lincoln never once proposed a balanced budget for Illinois either. So yeah, if I squint really hard, I can sort of see the resemblance.
- 47th Ward - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:47 pm:
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
A. Lincoln.
- Me Again - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:49 pm:
Is this governor ever going to realize he’s got a job to do and then he needs to start doing it?
- Linus - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:51 pm:
“Just like Lincoln persistably stuck by fellow Republican, Andy Jackson, in extreme opposition to the Civil War. Which, by the way, why did it happen? We need to focus: Focus. Reform.”
- thunderspirit - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:52 pm:
Well, we can confidently say his favorite characteristic ain’t Abe’s reputed honesty.
- Anon221 - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:53 pm:
Well, Andrew Jackson was even more “persistent”, according to a “re-write” of history by He Who Shall Not Be Named….
President Trump during an interview that airs Monday questioned why the country had a Civil War and suggested former President Andrew Jackson could have prevented it had he served later.
“I mean had Andrew Jackson been a little bit later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart,” Trump said during an interview with the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito.
“He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’”
Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, died in 1845. The Civil War began in 1861.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/331349-trump-why-was-there-the-civil-war
- Oswego Willy - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:54 pm:
Rauner isn’t Lincoln. Rauner can like Lincoln characteristics, Rauner lacks just about every characteristic Lincoln had, including about caring for people, looking out for the betterment of man, and actually having a conscious.
Rauner can ha docs favorite characteristic, but Rauner shares precious little with Lincoln, even as he and his “Democratic leaning” wife own the ILGOP, but… I digress.
- Whatever - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:58 pm:
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”
- Nick Name - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:04 pm:
“His persistence.”
Gov. Gaslight, you have no idea.
- Emily Booth - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:09 pm:
President Lincoln was patient, not persistent. A world of difference.
- Henry Francis - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:10 pm:
Persistence is one thing, but Abe also said this:
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Henry Francis - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:25 pm:
Whatever - I like your quote. Especially the part about the widows and orphans of those who have borne the battle.
Have these widows and orphans been paid yet?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-budget-feud-deals-unconscionable-blow-police-fire-182939624–business.html
- Gruntled University Employee - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:30 pm:
“Some of the people all of the time”
Nuff said,
- XDNR - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:34 pm:
In Rauner’s dreams. Lincoln’s persistence preserved the Union, Rauner’s persistence is deliberately destroying Illinois. No comparison!
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:36 pm:
He speaks about persistence as though it is a wholly positive attribute. A person can choose to try and make a hole in a brick wall by repeatedly hitting it with their head. That also is persistence.
- AlfondoGonz - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:39 pm:
If Rauner “beats” Madigan 9whatever that means), perhaps he’ll change his tune and say he admires Lincoln’s vampire-slaying abilities?
- Keyrock - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:42 pm:
Maybe the Governor can wear a rail-splitting costume. Then everyone will think he’s Lincolnesque!
- Norseman - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:52 pm:
That noise the boy scouts heard yesterday was Lincoln spinning in his grave.
- Anonymiss - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 4:40 pm:
I hope Lincoln is looking down on all of this.
“Oh for crying out loud. Mary, hold my beer…”
- wordslinger - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 4:51 pm:
What an ego.
Lincoln destroyed the South over sedition and slavery.
What’s Rauner destroying social services and higher ed for?
- Flynn's mom - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:03 pm:
Well it certainly wouldn’t be his honesty!
- Liberty - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:13 pm:
How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg. Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln imposed the first federal income tax on incomes over $800
- peon - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:42 pm:
As the old line goes, I’m glad I don’t have his nerve in my tooth.
- TKMH - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:52 pm:
Honestly, I’m surprised Rauner didn’t bring up Lincoln’s obsession with AFSCME or private equity deals.
- Rabid - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 6:05 pm:
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power “Abraham Lincoln
- Amalia - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 6:32 pm:
Rauner. the most you can say about him is that at least HE did not imply that HE could have negotiated a way out of the Civil War.
- wordslinger - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 7:51 pm:
Since he’s such a Lincoln scholar, perhaps Rauner can explain to President-Whose-Name-He’s-Afraid-to-Say what that Civil War was all about.
- Anonymous - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 7:53 pm:
But then. Lincoln wasn’t a heartless jerk. Some differences there.
- DuPage Dave - Monday, May 1, 17 @ 9:34 pm:
Rauner is kinda tall and very thin. If he grew a scruffy beard he might bear a physical resemblance to Abe.
But in terms of character or in terms of doing the right thing for the people, Rauner is completely the opposite of Lincoln.
- illinoised - Tuesday, May 2, 17 @ 8:32 am:
I know Lincoln scholars, and Rauner ain’t one. He cherry picked one of Lincoln’s traits. A fourth grader could do the same.
- Juvenal - Tuesday, May 2, 17 @ 11:37 am:
Lincoln was persistent in his goal, but flexible on tactics.
Rauner appears obsessively rigid in his tactics, despite their failure to achieve his stated result.
If Lincoln had kept doing the same thing after losing Bull Run, THEN the comparison would be accurate. Instead, he fired his generals and elevated Grant.