Maggie Thatcher and Abraham Lincoln

[Mike B.]

(04-09-2013 08:52 PM)Jim Page Wrote:  

(04-09-2013 08:40 PM)Gene C Wrote:  Thanks for letting me know I irritated you (and probably a few others) and please accept my apology

Well, please know that nothing said by anyone on this thread irritated me personally.

I just don't like discussions of current-day politics. I've walked away from some rather good bands for the same reason.

--Jim

I would tend to agree with this. I am on the board of a Civil War Roundtable, and we had trouble when a speaker turned his speech into a political rant. Many of our members were offended.

I don't want to go into the weeds of current day politics per se.

Lincoln was a politician so politics was important to him, but the applicability to his views today are tricky and often aren't clear.

My overall point was that it is really impossible for anyone to draw a straight line from Lincoln to their own political positions today.

I though have no problem with politicians quoting Lincoln. He is our greatest President