Are people from Kentucky all racists for not voting for Obama?
Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky…
Answer by creativeusername7
No
Answer by I am YOUR GOD I Am oBOMA BOW!!!
you saying lincoln was racist then? wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Answer by Sir Singleton
Of course not. Some are but the majority are not.
Answer by T S
Are you a racist for asking?
The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War
John Y. Simon was a giant in the field of Civil War-era history whose groundbreaking work on Grant was at the forefront of his generation’s reevaluation of Grant’s wartime acumen and his controversial presidency, earning him a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Forum in 2004 and a Lincoln Prize in 2005. In The Union Forever: Lincoln, Grant, and the Civil War, editor Glenn W. LaFantasie brings together some of Simon’s most significant work on two towering figures of their era.
The essays in The Union Forever explore the relationship between the two leaders and their influence on each other as well as their individual accomplishments and struggles. Simon illuminates Lincoln’s emancipation policy and his struggles as commander in chief. Other essays explore General Grant’s military career and leadership as well as the influence his wife had on his life. Drawing from Simon’s most prominent work as well as his lesser-known writing, The Union Forever allows veteran scholars to revisit classic works and makes available to new generations of readers Simon’s perspectives on America’s greatest leaders during a time of crisis and change.
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Kentucky… (Please read)?
1. Been there? Live or lived there?
2. What do you think of it? How well do you like it?
3. What comes to mind when you think of Kentucky?
As for me…
1. Live here, in the Louisville-Lexington area. (I’ve also lived in the Madisonville, Murray, and Covington-Newport areas.)
2. Too many rednecks and too much white trash, most folks are rude and impolite; don’t like it here! It sure is beautiful, though.
3. Hmmm…fried chicken, horses, Churchill Downs, swamps (in far west KY,) mountains, Shaker Village, rock fences, Green River, Corvettes, Mammoth Cave, Trail of Tears, palisades, My Old Kentucky Home, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Land Between the Lakes, Colonel Sanders Cafe, Cumberland Falls, Natural Bridge, Newport Aquarium, Mellow Mushroom, toothless hillbillies, rednecks, pickup trucks w/ confederate flags blasting rap music, etc.
Answer by nondescript
Just remember that if you want to be considered a native, “Louisville” has, at most, two syllables.
Answer by Bad Brain Punk
1. Visited Louisville many times.
2. I liked it, but mostly because of the nature of the visits. Not sure I would want to live there …
3. I think of a lot of the same things you do, but I also think of my relatives ( … one of whom got a 14 year old pregnant on his 21st birthday), paddle boats on the Ohio, magnolias, red buds, green buds, red brick houses with white trim, bourbon, basketball, blue grass, coal mines, and Cherokee Park. And fruitcakes … as in the kind my grandma used to make.
Answer by jen
1. i live here in somerset, pulaski co.
2. i love it i would not live anywhere else i am close to the lake the cumberland falls the tennessee line and all kinds of great stuff. what i hate is the tourist the ohio-indiana-everywhere else snobby assholes that act like they would charge YOU to wipe their behinds. they leave trash in the lake and dump their sewers in it from their houseboats too. also it is impossible to find decent work here.
3. what comes to mind is beauty all year round very nice locals(face it youre gonna have assholes anywhere you go) blue skies, church on sunday barbecue on saturday and a place where neighbors still deliver pies when you move in the neighborhood.
one thing i would love to clear up is this:: people realize!!!:::
THERE ARE REDNECKS IN EVERY PART OF THE WORLD
not just the south.
Answer by Not a perfect fool but trying
If you live there, you DON’T live in the Louisville-Lexington area — they are 90 miles apart at best;
I have lived in several towns in Kentucky (as well as 9 other states) and the description you provided could fit any or all of them. Kentucky is a beautiful state and several of the places–even the ones full of rednecks–are actually very nice places to live and the “natives” become friendly if you treat them as equals and not as beneath you.
You left out the beautiful horse farms in the Bluegrass; Cumberland Gap; University of Kentucky; Transylvania College; University of Louisville; the Ohio River; Kentucky River; etc.
Lincoln’s Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered (Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)
Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president. Widely remembered as the document that ended slavery, the proclamation in fact freed slaves only in the rebellious South (and not in the Border States, where slavery remained legal) and, effectively, only in the parts of the South occupied by the Union. Questions persist regarding Lincoln’s moral conviction and the extent to which the proclamation truly represented a radical stance on the issue of freedom.
The eight essays in this volume enrich our understanding of the proclamation by considering not only aspects of the president’s decision making, but also events beyond Washington. The proclamation provides a launching point for new insights on the consequences and legacies of freedom, the engagement of black Americans in their liberation, and the issues of citizenship and rights that were not decided by Lincoln’s document. Together the essays portray emancipation as a product of many hands, best understood when considering all the various actors, the place, and the time.
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William Blair, The Pennsylvania State University
Richard Carwardine, University of Oxford
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Louis Gerteis, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania
Mark E. Neely Jr., The Pennsylvania State University,
Michael Vorenberg, Brown University
Karen Fisher Younger, The Pennsylvania State University
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George Bush compare to Abraham Lincoln?
both have very low approval ratings
Similarities
Bush is a Republican.
Lincoln was a Republican, and the first Republican to be elected President.
Bush has strong ties to the South. He owns a ranch in Texas, his brother is Governor of Florida, and his father owns a residence in Houston.
Lincoln had strong ties to the South. He was born in Kentucky, as was his wife, and he maintained close ties with friends in that state throughout his life.
Neither Bush nor Lincoln was elected to the presidency by a majority of the popular vote
Both Bush and Lincoln chose seasoned men as their Secretaries of State. Lincoln chose William Seward, former Governor of NY. Bush chose Colin Powell, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Bush took few trips outside the United States prior to his presidency.
Lincoln had no international experience. His only trip outside American borders was to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
Both Bush and Lincoln made plain statements advocating racial and religious tolerance, Bush made strong statements about anti-Muslim bigotry just after 9/11; he repudiating Trent Lott’s comments about Strom Thurman. At one point in cabinet discussions after 9/11, Attorney-general Ashcroft stated: “We’re thinking about a national neighborhood watch system.” People would call in to report strange behavior. The President replied: “Make sure you don’t launch an anti-Arab backlash in this country.” (Woodward, p. 169) Lincoln became an outspoken opponent of slavery early in his political career and came to national prominence opposing its spread in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Lincoln often expressed a fatalistic attitude about his personal safety. “I shall continue till my work is done, and no earthly power can prevent it.” For Lincoln, it was a sense of destiny. “What is to be will be,” he often said.
Bush: “If it’s meant to be, it’s going to happen. And therefore there’s no need to try to hide from a terrorist.” (Woodward, p. 172)
Lincoln could use graphic language. In a message to General Grant, he wrote: “Hold on with a bull-dog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.” (Griessman, p. 38)
Bush to Vice President Chaney: “We’re going to find out who did this, and we’re going to kick their asses.” (Woodward, p. 18)
Bush has been actively involved in athletics. He never was a varsity player like his father, but he loves physical activity, and is an avid jogger. He once owned a stake in the Texas Rangers.
Lincoln was a champion wrestler, and liked to play an early version of baseball.
Bush is a Bible reader, and frequently acknowledges the importance of God’s will in human affairs and in his personal life. (Frum, pp. 3,4) Lincoln was a Bible reader and acknowledged the role of Divine Providence in human affairs.
Answer by Bearkat
This is the most pathetic attempt to nobilize Bush I’ve ever seen.
Answer by Electorial_farce
Bush is a retard.
Answer by Chi Guy
and your question is? lol
I am sure that one can find similarities between many people.
Answer by being
They both killed a million people ?
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Massive, but mostly superficial. How’s this for a comparison – when Lincoln had an incompetent running his war (McClellan), he took quick action and dismissed him, Bush stuck by Rumsfeld, a man seemingly more interested in transforming the military than in the prosecution of two wars, until an election forced his hand.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican President. George Bush will be the last Republican President.
Lincoln tried to warn America about the vatican infiltrating American politics and he was killed by them. Bush is in their pocket.
Lincoln was murdered. Bush not yet.
I largely agree with kujigafy; the sainted Lincoln believed, as does Dubya, in military dictatorship by the president in a contortion of the commander-in-chief powers, but Bush does not have the huevos to press the matter as far as Lincoln did. Both are anti-liberty tyrants who have little use for habeas corpus, although I suspect if Bush were ever to be tried for war crimes as deserved, he’ll be invoking the writ.
Absolute crap.
Was there a question here, or are you just trying to provide an education. If the latter, then I don’t grasp why you posted this as a question. I’m not going to bother to take this apart. The facts are accurate. I’d just like to point out a couple things:
1. Overseas travel is far quicker, easier, and safer today, so W. not traveling extensively is far different than Lincoln not traveling.
2. It’s much easier and safer to call for racial tolerance after the Civil Rights movement than it was when we still had legal slavery.
3. Many of our presidents have been physically fit. You looking for the manliest, check out Teddy Roosevelt and Andrew Jackson. Even Gerald Ford was a good football player. Sports leadership is frequently an early sign of leadership potential.
Now, if you were look at MY similarities with Lincoln. I’ve voted Republican most of my adult life, although lately, I’m looking at independents because I can’t tell the difference between R & D anymore. I grew up in the South. I’ve barely left the country. I’m all for racial and religious tolerance. I was a Varsity Track & Field and Cross Country athlete. There’s no way I would get the majority of the popular vote and if by some weird chance I got elected president, I think you’ll find that I, like pretty much every president, would choose skilled and experienced people for their cabinet.
So, by your argument, I’m just about as similar to Lincoln as Bush.
Now, why pray tell, did we go through this exercise?
Lincoln was born on Illinois and was not a particularly popular fellow in the South, called the Confederacy during his time in office. Jeb Bush is no longer th Governor of Florida and George was born in Maine. Lincoln, though mostly self-educated, was a very intelligent person and an eloquent speaker. George W. Bush, though well-educated, is a bungling idiot. Lincoln was anti-slavey, while Bush wants to recreate the practice under the name “guest worker program”.
The difference is simple Lincoln was smart Bush is not Lincoln ended a none popular war with in the US, Bush wants the war to keep goin even after the war is to a point where healing can begin with a different country. Lincoln wrote his own speaches and delivered them well, I am not sure Bush knows what he is doing behind the microphone when he is in front of the cameras. Bush’s first presidency prooved the theoretical electoral colege win without the backing of the majority vote. From my under standing Lincoln had the mojoity vote. Lincoln went down in history as one of the best presidence in history George Bush will more than likey go down in history as the worst president the nation has ever seen without being impeached.
You could do that with practically any President.
We’ve had plenty of Republican Presidents.; Bush and Lincoln are hardly unique.
Ties to the South: Clinton was from Arkansas, Bush the Elder claimed residence in Texas, Carter war from Georgia, LBJ was from Texas….
Many Presidents with a third party candidate running did not win a majority of the vote.
Any President who did not pick a seasoned man as Secretary of State would be out of his mind.
Very few people would have traveled outside of the United Stated during Lincoln’s time. For a man who wanted to become President, I find George Bush’s lack of interest in the rest of the world dismaying.
Pretty much any President since the Civil Rights movement advocate racial and religious tolerance, and many did before that.
Any President has been aware that the job makes them a likely target for an assassin; a fatalistic attitude is to be expected.
You could probably find one example of graphic language for any President.
An involvement in athletics is something a large number of American males do.
And reading the Bible is also common among Americans. Perhaps not as much as athletics, but still pretty common.
Lincoln did NOT fabricate intelligence data to enable him to go to war.
Lincoln had his war trust upon him, whereas lil bush invaded a country that did not have ties to 9/11.
Licoln was a great speaker
bush is d*mn near illiterate!
its sick to put bush in the same sentance as Lincoln
You can draw similarities to almost any two people. The one that makes me laugh, though is:
‘Bush took few trips outside the United States prior to his presidency.
Lincoln had no international experience. His only trip outside American borders was to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.’
Lincoln came from a different era where people didn’t travel like they do in today’s world. Bush had ONLY been to Mexico, a pathetic resume for the wealthy son of a former president and WWII hero.
You did, though, leave out some major examples of differences.
1. Lincoln never committed treason by exposing the identity of an undercover CIA agent.
2. Lincoln never fed his citizens and Congress lies so he could go to war against a sovereign nation.
There are many other differences, but Lincoln was one of the greatest presidents, and Bush has been the worst this nation has ever had, by far.
….however….the biggest difference (and most important difference) between both men is that Lincoln helped to unite a divided country, whereas Bush helped perpetuate the seeds of division within our country.
I see you have tried to link the two presidents, but the simple reality is they they are polar opposites. In fact the Republican party of Lincoln’s time is very different from the current Republican party.
If Bush were faced with with the freeing of slaves, we would still have slaves in this country. I believe he would think it was bad for the plantation business and get plantation owners to give to his campaign fund.
bush invaded iraq for oil
lincoln invaded the south to control its agriculture
both started wars that they can never be forgiven for
lincolns army murdered and raped civilians all in the south burning homes and crops as they went
lincoln was not an american hero
he was an evil man and got what he deserved
Lincoln also suspended Habaes Corpus and his generals sent thousands of rebels before war crimes tribunals, while thousands more were sent to prison camps.
Lincoln undermined states rights and is now sainted as a great abolishionist (despite never being an major advocate for the movement). in fact Lincoln’s belief at one time was to send the slaves back to Africa.
Lincoln silenced rioters in Baltimore and many other cities who were protesting an uncontitutional military draft.
Bush has only had wet dreams about these things.
bush is a idiot and deserves to be shot in the head thats the difference
Lincoln was very critical of organized religion. Bush OTOH… well we know.
Sorry, but there is nothing there.
you gotta be kidding
You got another beer?
Lincoln also called martial law and became what some would call a “friendly dictator”, the only difference is Lincoln made all decisions correctly during the civil war which helped his integrity later. Bush never did anything right further hurting his integrity (if he had any to begin with).
Lincoln had 2 eyes and a nose, Bush has 2 eyes and a nose. OMG It’s like they’re the same person.
Lincoln surrounded himself with political opponents in his cabinet. The idea was that opposing viewpoints would keep the president from living in a bubble. Can’t say the same for GWB.
Funny.
Very true. Lincoln did not have popular support behind him during the Civil War.
Yeah I thought about that before.
Also they both started wars lol.
0_o you know a LOT about Lincoln.
To ‘being’- a million people haven’t died in the Iraq war either…
perhaps he was reincarnated..to continue a job he never finished..for whatever the reason…
interesting
The thing is, Lincoln accomplished something – tell me ONE beneficial thing King George has done (in eight years).
It is pretty country , I have relatives in Richmond . Great place if you enjoy the outdoors , camping , hiking , fishing . I visit Kentucky and Tennessee at least once a year . I would live there if it did not get soo cold there in the winter . Mammoth cave , wow , that is a place that I have not been to in many years .
Kentucky’s one of the best states,for it’s natural beauty,
there’s so many things to do there.But something you all
haven’t mentioned.It’s a great place to get away from all
those obnoxious yankees.They don’t go there.
Not all people from KY are racists. Just because they didn’t vote for Obama does not make them racist, but race may be many peoples reason for not voting for him. I VOTED OBAMA!! I live in KY and have a Mexican boyfriend and I get the looks and comments everyday. We used to live in FL, and there is definatley more racist in KY. You can see it in their eyes. But there are also some people who aren’t . It’s mostly ignorance. It was passed down from generation to generation. I just ignore it, but it hurts me that my vote for Obama will mean basically nothing in KY, but I’m still voting.
20% percent of kentucky voters say that race was an issue…..mostly clinton supporters….i cant believe how openly racist those 20% are…… those black voters arent voting for obama cuz they dont want a white person to win…but those 20% of white voters dont want a black guy to win…..20%..and thats people who would actually ADMIT it openly to pollsters…..not all people from kentucky are racist of course…but that seems to be a high number of people
No – we cannot make such a general assumption about a large group of people with diverse values, motivations, ethics, and viewpoints.
That is unfair to the majority of people within this state.
Don’t be foolish. What’s Lincoln got to do with it?
Read the link and think!
His being 50% white 37.55 Arab and 12.5% black is no reason not tovote for him. His background, inexperience and his associattion with Ayers, Soros, Sinclair, Rezko etc is the reason he will never be elected. The Dems will rue the day they decided such a loser should be promoted over Clinton.
McCain 08
Clinton 2012
Depends who you ask, but the correct answer is no.
To hear the Obamanation Nation groupies talk, everyone who dares to not vote Obama is a racist, regardless of the reasons that they didn’t vote for him.
No I’m from Ky and not once did I hear anyone mention race the only ones crying racism is ppl from the Obama camp.
Lincoln has nothing to do with anything.His reasons for the emancipation were different from what you think.
I couldnt belive what i heard from West Virginians saying that they wouldnt wanna vote for a “colored” person. I didnt think there were people that still backwoods out there
Yep, anyone that doesn’t vote for Barry, love Barry or want to have sex with Barry only feels that way because he is black.
Fucking racists
Or perhaps they see an underqualified candidate with fringe views that never met a tax he didn’t want to impose.
fs
They are typical white people.
Today, Abe Lincoln would be regarded as a racist. He was morally opposed to slavery, but didn’t think much of black people. Many abolitionists were of the same view.
I would have to say no. Are the people from Oregon sexist who did not vote for Clinton?
At some point we need to stop stereotyping entire states and even regions of the country because they support ideas/people that we personally do not.
Isn’t it ironic – when 55% of the women vote for Hillary, it’s sexist.
But when 93% of blacks vote for Obama, it isn’t racist.
That is what MSNBC & CNN would like you to believe.