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To: Blasher who wrote (765412)	1/23/2014 8:12:43 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573857

Lincoln never said that. Or wrote it.

To: Blasher who wrote (765412)	1/23/2014 8:29:00 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573857

I am sure kings, dictators and plutocrats love it when middle class folks sell their bullshit. If you tax the rich more, and use the money to help the poor get a decent meal and build schools for them, you will make the poor stronger!!! And the only thing the rich have to give up is a little mad money! Well, and some power. Because as the poor get educated they will insist on fairness of the rich. <<Mr. Draghi quoted Abraham Lincoln as having said, “You cannot make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker.”>>

To: Blasher who wrote (765412)	1/23/2014 10:17:26 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Except he never said that. 531 hits on Google for it, and nothing earlier than 2001. The person that put it in a list of quotes said it was by Lincoln, but a guy on a martial arts discussion board in 2004 said he made it up himself. In 2011, it appeared on two conservative blogs. In 2013, a Republican county chairman in Florida used it at an appearance with Ann Coulter. Then, this guy Draghi said it late last year and conservative publications have been passing it around. But no links, no sources, nothing. If Lincoln really said it, we'd find a speech, a writing, something online -- even a requote sometime in the 19th or 20th centuries. But nothing. If you have evidence otherwise, please post. -Z

To: Blasher who wrote (765412)	1/24/2014 12:29:01 AM
From: FJB	2 Recommendations Recommended By Blasher joseffy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Jill Abramson: 'Most secretive White House I have ever dealt with'... Let me move on to another topic in the Obama administration. How would you grade this administration, compared to others, when it comes to its relationship with the media? Well, I would slightly like to interpret the question as "How secretive is this White House?" which I think is the most important question. I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush's first term. I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It's on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.