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Posted by tm on 10/20/05 07:32
In article <uu5el1tgao5m33td9dolkvo8tiqueoa477@4ax.com>,
Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:49:54 -0400, wd <n@1.invalid> wrote:
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> >I prefer to avoid politics on newsgroups because the conversations get
> >out of hand too often. I suggest reading something like
> >commondreams.org. Subscribe to their newsletter and you can get headlines
> >from many different news sources in your inbox. Not everything there is
> >good, but
> > you can see some alternative viewpoints by reading it. Also read the
> > writings of the founding fathers and compare them to what the Republican
> > party is doing.
>
> The last line of the above paragraph could have been written during
> the administration of the first Republican president: Abraham
> Lincoln. It was as valid then as it is now.
Technically, Jefferson was the first Republican Party president.
Lincoln was the first president of the modern-day Republican Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic-Republican_Party
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
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