Here is a more thoroughgoing and eloquent expression of the sort of defeatism and anti-Administration animus expressed the other day by the Senate’s Democratic leader:
[A]fter four years of failure [of] the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation ofhostilities. . . .
That’s from the Democratic Party’s 1864 election platform, and the Presidential tyrant it denounces is not George W. Bush, but Abraham Lincoln. (Thanx to Best of the Web.)
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