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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
— Bruce Rauner (@GovRauner) April 30, 2017
posted by Rich Miller
Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:40 pm
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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.
Comment by 47th Ward Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:43 pm
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
A. Lincoln.
Comment by 47th Ward Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:47 pm
Is this governor ever going to realize he’s got a job to do and then he needs to start doing it?
Comment by Me Again Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:49 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.”
Comment by Linus Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:51 pm
Well, we can confidently say his favorite characteristic ain’t Abe’s reputed honesty.
Comment by thunderspirit Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:52 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
Comment by Anon221 Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:53 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.
Comment by Oswego Willy Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:54 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.”
Comment by Whatever Monday, May 1, 17 @ 2:58 pm
“His persistence.”
Gov. Gaslight, you have no idea.
Comment by Nick Name Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:04 pm
President Lincoln was patient, not persistent. A world of difference.
Comment by Emily Booth Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:09 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.
Comment by Henry Francis Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:10 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
Comment by Henry Francis Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:25 pm
“Some of the people all of the time”
Nuff said,
Comment by Gruntled University Employee Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:30 pm
In Rauner’s dreams. Lincoln’s persistence preserved the Union, Rauner’s persistence is deliberately destroying Illinois. No comparison!
Comment by XDNR Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:34 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.
Comment by Cubs in '16 Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:36 pm
If Rauner “beats” Madigan 9whatever that means), perhaps he’ll change his tune and say he admires Lincoln’s vampire-slaying abilities?
Comment by AlfondoGonz Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:39 pm
Maybe the Governor can wear a rail-splitting costume. Then everyone will think he’s Lincolnesque!
Comment by Keyrock Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:42 pm
That noise the boy scouts heard yesterday was Lincoln spinning in his grave.
Comment by Norseman Monday, May 1, 17 @ 3:52 pm
I hope Lincoln is looking down on all of this.
“Oh for crying out loud. Mary, hold my beer…”
Comment by Anonymiss Monday, May 1, 17 @ 4:40 pm
What an ego.
Lincoln destroyed the South over sedition and slavery.
What’s Rauner destroying social services and higher ed for?
Comment by wordslinger Monday, May 1, 17 @ 4:51 pm
Well it certainly wouldn’t be his honesty!
Comment by Flynn's mom Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:03 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
Comment by Liberty Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:13 pm
As the old line goes, I’m glad I don’t have his nerve in my tooth.
Comment by peon Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:42 pm
Honestly, I’m surprised Rauner didn’t bring up Lincoln’s obsession with AFSCME or private equity deals.
Comment by TKMH Monday, May 1, 17 @ 5:52 pm
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power “Abraham Lincoln
Comment by Rabid Monday, May 1, 17 @ 6:05 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.
Comment by Amalia Monday, May 1, 17 @ 6:32 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.
Comment by wordslinger Monday, May 1, 17 @ 7:51 pm
But then. Lincoln wasn’t a heartless jerk. Some differences there.
Comment by Anonymous Monday, May 1, 17 @ 7:53 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.
Comment by DuPage Dave Monday, May 1, 17 @ 9:34 pm
I know Lincoln scholars, and Rauner ain’t one. He cherry picked one of Lincoln’s traits. A fourth grader could do the same.
Comment by illinoised Tuesday, May 2, 17 @ 8:32 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.
Comment by Juvenal Tuesday, May 2, 17 @ 11:37 am