The GOP would even reject Abe.

It’s sad to say. But I think that if Barack Obama were white, he’d be embraced by Republicans. But he’s considered black, and that deeply annoys many, many Republicans. Especially those of the conservative ilk. They inwardly fume that a black man occupies the ‘White’ House. It’s supposed to be only for white folks. Some Republicans are still fighting the Civil War 150 years after it started. They think it’s not over with yet. Evidenced by current cries for secession. Many Republicans won’t even concede that Obama is an American. They think of him as ‘foreign’ merely because he’s black. True Americans are only supposed to be white. One can sense the hostility toward Obama. He’s advocated some programs that Republicans long advocated. But once Republicans learned that Obama was supportive, they decided to change their positions to opposition on many of those issues They simply can’t bring themselves to like a black man or black woman in any way. It goes against the Republicans’ racist grain. I’m not saying that every Republican is a racist. Only a majority. There are exceptions. But many of the conservative Republicans would like to drum the exceptions out of the party. Looks to me like if Abe Lincoln were alive today, he’d be unwelcome in the Republican Party. –Jim Broede