In reading about Thomas Jefferson one will find that he was a member of the Democratic Republican party. Those in Washington today would kringe at such a statement. Worse yet the words of John F.Kennedy, one of my idols regardless of my party affiliation, were echoed long ago by Jefferson's tombstone:
HERE WAS BURIED
THOMAS JEFFERSON
AUTHOR OF THE
DECLARATION
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
OF THE
STATUTE OF VIRGINIA
FOR
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
AND FATHER OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
BORN APRIL 2, 1743 O.S.
DIED JULY 4. 1826
He made sure that his legacy was about the things he gave the people, not what they gave him,namely the Presidency of the United States.
The audacity of Barack Obama to compare himself to Abraham Lincoln flies in the face of that example.
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