The actor Sam Watterson, who played Lincoln on stage, read from the words of young Lincoln to the stanzas of modern poets - Schwarz, Ginsburg: Let the Rail Splitter awake! Against the new slave makers!
Then the conclusion: "Perhaps no one has let the rail splitter awake more than Barak Obama," a scholar concludes, with Moyers concurring.
Spirit of Lincoln thy country needs thee now!
But these men cannot see: We are all Lincoln! The worker, the baker, the father, the family - we are all Lincoln, now.
Cloistered in the hovel of a million homes, working at our daily routine - we are all Lincoln, now.
Though we heard from fireside chats that we needed fear only fear itself, the GI Joe in muddy boots slogged through France toward the Ardienne and carried the Republic in his pocket. They were all Lincoln then, as we are all Lincoln now!
This land will be saved, not by infusions of ill-conceived stimulus, stymied by socialist forced sharing of wealth, but by those who believe in the God of this Land, who serve Jesus Christ - I say this in the spirit of and in nearly the same words as Washington the man.
We who will cloth the naked, feed the hungry, minister to the needs of the poor and the afflicted! All without socialist mandate; mandado by love of neighbor!
As we serve our neighbor, we serve That Other.
I say, Mr. President: We are all Lincoln now!
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