Did Palin dishonor a quote from Abraham Lincoln?
Palin is running behind Lincoln for cover in defense of her recent quotes using God in her speeches:
This is Lincolns quote:
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right”
And Palin’s quote on US troops going to Iraq:
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God”
And this is Palin’s defense in the Gibson interview:
“But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a REPEAT IN MY COMMENTS, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side.
Can someone tell me where this “repeat in my comments” is? I think it is horrifying that she is preversing one of Lincoln’s greatest quotes and using it deceitfully for political advantage. This is in addition to what I feel is also blasphemy, inherently saying that God supports war.
That guy – you are lying yourself, go to youtube. I typed her exact quote.
Answer by Rusty Varner
No. In case you are new to politics every politician uses the words from someone else and can use them any way they want.
At least she credited Lincoln and did not plagiarize as Joe BIden has been known to do..
Answer by Holly
No and get off her case! Geeze you people!
Answer by sealove
I hope she did. I hope people keep track of every statement she makes and stretch things out and make her look really bad.
Answer by jeff
Yahoo fascist ZIONISTS are censoring all of my Obama questions! Spread the word!
Have you read and considered these quotes?
These are just a few from the great men that formed the greatest nation on earth. Many founding fathers have attributed this nation to divine power. They were there, they lived it. Can we claim them all to be delisional and still some of the greatest men?
“I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.”
George Washington quote
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
Thomas Jefferson quote
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right”
Abraham Lincoln quote
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
George Washington quote
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes
wow, just amazing really. I did not mention Christianity, and yet I get told off that these men were not Christian. I am talking about these great men believing in God, and how athiests say all who do are delusional. Yet look at all the things delusional people have accomplished.
Answer by lk 1:38
No, but I will now. Thank you. Where did you find them?
Answer by thekidwithoutabrain
yes whats your real question?
Answer by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR
Did you know that Lincoln and Jefferson weren’t Christians?
[edit:] “The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession.” – Abraham Lincoln.
By the way, the United States isn’t the greatest nation on Earth, and I say this as an American.
And in response to your first paragraph, e pur si muove!
Answer by Jay
Yes, I have.
“I like your Christ. I don’t like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.”
Mohandas Ghandi
What does this Abraham Lincoln quote mean?
“Each looked for an easier triumph and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.”
Answer by Cyber Ninja
translation: color doesn’t matter….
Answer by I’LLpullyourcard
co-sign first answer:
He is also touching on the contradictory manner in which slave owners justified their actions…”It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God’s assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces”
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- rusty varner
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Humm. I agree with Abe and Thomas. And there is no such thing as a gay Mormon. That is an oxymoron. One cannot believe in the real teachings of the scriptures and be a gay also. I respect evryone’s right to be gay. This is a free country. However, I don’t accept that he is LDS. He can still be religious, but it just can’t be true that he is LDS. I guess one can say that he wishes to be.
Our Founding Fathers were men of faith and strong moral character. Consider the following for your collection.
“Can the liberties of a nation be sure when we remove their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that these liberties are a gift from God? Thomas Jefferson
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
You know your going to get bombarded by the anti religious quotes of our forfathers, and there were many.
We were NOT founded as a Christian country and we were NOT founded on Christian principles.
We were founded on freedom and the biggest statement of that freedom was the freedom to worship as you wish, say what you want and keep the church and state seperate.
Jefferson spoke at length about hypocritical religious people, but as a Theist, knew God. to be the foundation of the universe.
Amen!
That was refreshing. There is SO much hatred and atheism on this site it makes me cringe. Thank you!
I believe these were great men, and I respect them and what they acclomplished a lot. However, even if they believed in god, that doesn’t mean that I have to also believe to respect them. In fact, whether a person believes in god shouldn’t be a deciding factor as to how great a person they are, IMHO. To me, it matters how they treat other people.
Thomas Jefferson was a deist. how did he say that quote.
Way to cherry pick.
This is yet another example of Bush/Cheney and now McCain/Palin treating the American public like we are complete idiots and will simply believe what ever they say. And yes, she did dishonor Lincoln’s quote. What Lincoln said was very thoughtful and profound. Palin’s claim that it was a “repeat in her comments” is a blatant lie and a cowardly attempt to back peddle away from what she said by aligning herself with one of this nations greatest leaders.
I see your point. I think God is on the side of everyone living in peace and keeping people out of the holy wars. To say that the war is god’s will is mixing church and state. Leave god out of this!
she just ran behind lincoln because she knew her comment would make the whole republican party look bad, especially McCain, and definitely lose votes…..
hope McCain doesn’t win ’cause this is how it’s going to be with Palin in the backseat…. she’s going to be a backseat driver……
No, Lincoln was a Republican in a very unpopular war. She quoted the right guy,
no, she did not.
Why dont you give the full context of her quote?? she did not say our national leaders where sending the troops on a task from god, She said let us pray that this is a task from god.
When you have a leader who calls a woman a pig, doesn’t know how many states there are and his best buddy for 20 years was a racist.. I think you should shut the hell up about this woman’s first.. get it.. first interview.. Give me a break. You Democrats are really that scared of her, huh?
No, she was indicating that Lincoln also prayed that God was on our side.If you would post HER complete quote you would get a much different picture of what she said.
But you really aren’t looking for a clear picture here are you?
No she didnt. The media didnt play the entire quote.
I think it is more scarier than that … she actually believes that God wants this war. She wants US to be on God’s side.
The answer was obviously prepped beforehand. I have seen the video and there is no way she was channeling Honest Abe in that speech. Moses, maybe, but not Lincoln.
She has insulted Lincoln by using him to LIE to the American people. She is not fit for the VP job, and she certainly proved it tonight. I expect more of the same in the next couple of days.
What Lincoln said was great, but that’s not what Palin said. She did not REPEAT it in her comment. Her comments have been publicly quoted and recorded. They sound nothing like what Lincoln said.
she said those comments to her church, there is a clip on you tube, but i don’t have the link, just search her name on you tube, you’ll find it
its in the same clip that her preacher talks about terrorist attacks on Jerusalem being God’s punishment since the jew’s didn’t accept Jesus. Not my words, his……
Palin’s a freak. God isn’t on her side.
Arguably, Lincoln was an atheist. If not, then definitely a deist. Palin has no understanding of this.
She dishonors the Human race.
OMG
Your mind is a terrible thing to waste, and you are trying hard. Too much misspent mental energy here, you make a heck of a liberal.
Go to bed.
LOL…you do realize that Obama plagerized a speech during the New Hampshire primary right? Wow…you cultists are hysterical….
I really like everything else I have seen of Palin. I didn’t like that explaination. You have a point. But I wouldn’t go as far to say she dishonored the quote.
what’s the weather like where you are right NOW?
No she didn’t. Thanks for the 2 points
Well, Lincoln was also alive in a different time. People did not have much more than religion in those days and that makes a difference.
Her using religion like this shows extreme ignorance!
She wasn’t thinking of Lincoln when she said that. That’s just the best her Republican handlers could come up with to explain an obvious question. It’s pretty pathetic.
Palin likes to hunt wolves…
She likes to hunt them down in helicopters then kill the pack leader leaving the rest to die alone and confused…
She is a freak
GET OFF HER CASE???? SHE WANTS TO GO TO WAR WITH RUSSIA, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!!!!!!
So you can’t quote Lincoln without blaspheming? Really, Kennedy did often. But you are probably not old enough to know that.