Abraham Lincoln...A Racist???

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,---that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.

-Abraham Lincoln

Is it not strange to think that these words are in the opening of Mr. Lincoln's debate with Stephen Douglas to win his Senate seat?

Isn't Mr. Lincoln "the guy who freed the slaves"?

Doesn't Mr. Obama study Mr. Lincoln's words for guidance?

Have politics always really been that nauseating?

This sounds more like something George Wallace would have said.

Mr. Lincoln...A racist, among other things.