By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--April 29, 2009
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The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it." No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.Lincoln was, of course, arguing against slavery in those debates. Arguably he won that debate and were it not for the rampant Democrat vote fraud then holding sway in the Illinois of 1858 (how things have stayed the same) he would have entered the Senate instead of becoming president two years on. But, regardless that he was arguing the case against slavery, the nugget of truth in his words can properly be applied to Obama's socialist agenda. Obama essentially wants to enslave the segment of America that works hard for its bread and wants to take that bread away and give that it to those of his supporters that would rather not work so hard — or, those that would like to use that stolen money to find their own left-wing political agendas. Barack Obama is not the sort of president that Lincoln worked to promote. Obama's "tyrannical principle" is anathema to the very legacy of the man Obama pretends at admiring.
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.