Feeling Others' Pain
Quotes of the day:
Both indented quotes are from Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III and Peter W. Kunhardt (the descriptions below each quote are my words). Contrast this to the goofy smugness of our 43rd President who sleeps each night like a baby. No doubts cross his simple, unquestioning, self-righteous mind. This despite the fact that he has led us into an unnecessary war which has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including children.
Look yonder at those poor fellows. I cannot bear it. This suffering, this loss of life is dreadful.Illinois Congressman Isaac N. Arnold describing President Lincoln's reaction upon seeing a line of wounded men they came upon in Washington in May, 1864, while riding in the Presidential carriage.
White House portraitist Francis Carpenter found him unable to sleep, ‘pacing back and forth…great black rings under his eyes.’President Lincoln’s reaction to the carnage going on in the Virginia battles as Grant relentlessly pursued Lee (also May, 1864).
Both indented quotes are from Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III and Peter W. Kunhardt (the descriptions below each quote are my words). Contrast this to the goofy smugness of our 43rd President who sleeps each night like a baby. No doubts cross his simple, unquestioning, self-righteous mind. This despite the fact that he has led us into an unnecessary war which has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, including children.
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