Reply #11: The last shriek

[Faygo Kid]

We are to that point. Sad. When Lincoln proposed issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, Secretary of State Seward counseled against the timing, saying that in light of a string of Union defeats, the timing was wrong, and the Proclamation would seem an act of desperation. Lincoln agreed, later saying it would sound like "the last shriek," and decided to wait until after a Union victory to issue the Proclamation. That came with Antietam in September 1862, and the rest is history.

This sounds like Hillary's "last shriek," her act of desperation. Ironically, Seward was the distinguished New York senator who was the heavy favorite for the 1860 presidential nomination, and Lincoln was the much lesser known former Illinois state senator who won the nomination.

The rest, as they say, is history. And it's about to repeat itself.

Can't wait for President Obama to rededicate the Lincoln Memorial on the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, Feb. 12, 2009. I will be there for that one, for sure.