2 Years ago, I proposed that the Democratic party adopt Abraham Lincoln because the GOP had

[Pryderi]

deserted him.

Tonight, Obama made Lincoln a Democrat.

Republicans are gonna be angry.

Maybe now they'll stop adopting Harry Truman!

[Danger Mouse]

1. We should adopt Teddy Roosevelt while we're at it.

[babylonsister]

3. Add FDR. nt

[Critters2]

13. FDR's always been one of us. nt

[Pryderi]

4. I'll draw up the adoption papers. :)

[babylonsister]

2. Has any other former president been so embraced? I don't remember

one (well, except raygun's funeral).

And I'm adopting Lincoln! :patriot:

[Cha]

5. Nobody recognizes the republican

party in Lincoln's Day. Things Change and pod people took over the republicons..of course, Lincoln mirrors Obama better than gw bush.

[Thothmes]

6. that right

Lets adopt a President that trashed the concept of Habius Corpus. Lets adopt a President that was willing to arrest the Chief Justice of the Supreme court because he was fighting the President on the issue of Army arresting civilians without formal charges.

[islandmkl]

7. selective history has no point...

[Pryderi]

8. Watch Looking for Lincoln on PBS?

[Danger Mouse]

9. Lincoln was not perfect. He made mistakes, as did all presidents.

Yet without his leadership, who knows what could have come out of the Civil War?

[grantcart]

14. Taney gave us Dredd Scott among other monstrocities

Another great southerner like Robert E Lee who disagreed with slavery but defended the south so that we coould slaughter 800,000 for no reason.

Also the charge that Lincoln tried to have Taney arrested is not supported by historical evidence or the overwhelming number of Lincoln biographers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney

[Thothmes]

15. Nicholas and Hay, Lincolns secretaries

are the people that first stated Lincoln signed the warrent, but held on to it.

[PFunk]

10. I'm still trying to figure out how in the hell things 'switched'.

In Lincoln's time it was the Repugs were the progressives and the Dems were the regressives. Oh I know how it generally happend. I just want to know that defining connerstone event which you can point to where the 'switch' happened.

[Odin2005]

12. The Populists, followed by TR's Progressive revolt from the GOP in 1912.

William Jennings Bryan and Co. started the Democratic Party's left-ward shift, increasing the party's popularity among rural liberal Midwesterners. Then in 1912 the Progressives bolted from the GOP in reaction to Taft's turn to the Right and his betrayal of Teddy Roosevelt's legacy. FDR absorbed the Progressives into the Democratic Party, and then LBJ drove the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic Party.

[Clio the Leo]

11. Oh yeah, I claimed Lincoln on election night.

That was part of the deal. :)

[bunkerbuster1]

16. I think I remember that post.

If I didn't support the notion then with a K&R-ish reply, I sure did in spirit.

Not sure about your notion of dumping Truman. Remember that Truman was the first to get us a single-payer health insurance program, which was thwarted by the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress."

[boomerbust]

17. No! No!

It was Lincoln who adopted Obama.

[POAS]

18. I believe the last Republican President

to preside over a growing economy was Eisenhower. We should adopt Eisenhower who warned us to beware of the military-industrial complex.