tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post7371309491459060780..comments2024-03-28T03:48:12.109-04:00Comments on make the logo bigger: Obama vs. McCain? First came Lincoln vs. Douglas.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post-32986974762138629452008-10-31T12:01:00.000-04:002008-10-31T12:01:00.000-04:00Breckenridge and Bell were the others. The concept...Breckenridge and Bell were the others. The concept is based on Lincoln recognizing that the country would have to make up its collective mind about slavery and which way it wanted to go, that a split nation wouldn’t work. Either way, states needed to make up their minds one way or the other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post-36094735719936118152008-10-31T08:54:00.000-04:002008-10-31T08:54:00.000-04:00Who needed ads for those guys?Burr just shot Hamil...Who needed ads for those guys?<BR/>Burr just shot Hamilton; Brutus knifed Caesar; and Lenin, having passed himself, had Stalin chop Trotsky to death in Mexico.<BR/>Ads are such a benign, bloodless way to vent.<BR/>That 1860 race was even more divided, by the way, than it appears.<BR/>The Democrats, themselves split into Northern and Southern parties, and Breckinridge siphoned enough from Douglas to let Lincoln squeak in with 39% of the popular vote. There was a fourth candidate, too, forget his name, possibly Nader.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13430685.post-9683868145957729102008-10-29T10:43:00.000-04:002008-10-29T10:43:00.000-04:00Brilliant. I think you're on to something here......Brilliant. I think you're on to something here...maybe a series of historical attack ads? <BR/>Hamilton v. Burr? Caesar v. Brutus? Lenin v. Trotsky?<BR/><BR/>Nice work guys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com