“Republican candidates who appeal to prejudice and are recently calling some parts of America the “real America,” and parts that disagree with them “un-American,” are not only playing to their party base, they are playing to what is base.”
kristan peters-hamlin
“Were Hannibal Hamlin alive today, he would be delighted that his efforts at achieving liberty for all has led to a time when Americans could vote for a president not based on color, but based on capability, character and intellect. But he would be disappointed in the abandonment by his party (in title) of its initial values.”
“To answer my children’s question, I asked them to identify the values of the Lincoln-era Democrats and Republicans. They correctly identified that the slave states (then the Democrats) stood for states’ rights and against civil rights for African-Americans. Lincoln’s and Hamlin’s views on the issue of states’ rights can best be summarized by Lincoln’s response in the Douglas debates: “There is no right to do what’s wrong.””
