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Home Front: Politix
Public University's Plaque Labels President Lincoln A Democrat
2013-11-13
[THECOLLEGEFIX] A public university in President Abraham Lincoln's home state of Illinois is adorned with a plaque that states Lincoln -- arguably the most famous and influential president in American history -- was a Democrat.

Lincoln was a Republican.

The plaque, located on a historic building that's part of Northeastern Illinois University in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
Posted by:Fred

#7  The hard part will be changing all the history books. I figure they'll avoid his political affiliation for awhile before making him a Dem in schoolbooks.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2013-11-13 17:00  

#6  If "democrat" refers to his fondness for democracy, it could just as easily be "republican" for his fondness for the Republic.

So maybe it'd be easier to just leave the name, without any added adjectives.
Posted by: Bobby   2013-11-13 12:58  

#5  Any student who walks by that -- it's mis-education in its purest form

Since nowadays brainwashing "education" starts in kindergarten...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-11-13 12:48  

#4  "Any student who walks by that -- it's miseducation in its purest form

Sadly, this won't be the stupidest thing the students are exposed to at college.
Posted by: SteveS   2013-11-13 11:42  

#3  MinTruth isn't good on history.

One of the key tenets of Progressive Socialism is 'thou shalt bear false witness' to advance the cause.

Their pseudo intellectual explanation ignores -

"Republicanism is the ideology of governing a society or state as a republic, where the head of state is appointed by means other than heredity, often through elections." - wiki
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-11-13 09:23  

#2  They are not too good with American history or they took license with it.
Posted by: JohnQC   2013-11-13 09:11  

#1  We refer to them as RINO's today.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-11-13 08:58  

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