Lincoln pennies to commemorate "Honest Abe's" 200th birthday

Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, served between 1861 and 1865. Lincoln was said to have been the illegitimate son of an African man, according to Leroy's findings. Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents.

Abraham Lincoln Was Half Black Historians Reveal
August 18th, 2008
by Joel Reamer


Barack Obama is the new Abraham Lincoln

WASHINGTON DC - USA - The sixteenth president of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln has been discovered to have had a black father according to historians and scientists working for the Institute of Historical Science which is linked to Harvard university.

Records dating to February 12, 1809 officially remark that Abraham Lincoln's parents were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, however, there has been a new discovery which has put a new slant on the issue of parentage.

Abraham Lincoln's mother was having an affair with a black plantation worker and new DNA evidence suggests that she somehow tricked her husband into believing that Abraham was the couples child. Secret love letters unearthed in 2003 reveal that Lincoln's mother was conducting a clandestine affair with a slave named Iemis from a Kentucky plantation.

"We managed to attain DNA evidence from a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair which proves that he had a very strong African genetic link. His chromosome makeup is very specific to West African DNA patterns and this suggests that Abraham's real father was indeed of African origin," Dr. Alan Holdsworth, who is the chief Anthropologist on this project told National Geographic magazine.

The Obama campaign team, on hearing of the wonderful news have already started production of a short film to be aired on all networks next week.

Senator McCain's campaign team are of course trying to refute the evidence collated by the scientific researchers as false and have demanded the team re-do the DNA analysis of Abraham Lincoln's hair.

"Now we know why he was so vehemently opposed to slavery. Lincoln's father was a slave. His mother, a poor white farmer's wife had slept with a black slave and somehow concealed this fact from her husband. It's almost like something you would see on Jerry Springer or Maury," a reporter from the Fox News Network said.

With the prospect of another half black president on the way, America must come to terms with its past before it embraces its future.

One who is feeling it is Richard Norton Smith, the distinguished American historian and founding director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. I reached out to Smith, now a scholar-in-residence at George Mason University, who regularly opines on presidential history for PBS' "Lehrer News Hour."

"I was a little surprised when you called," he told me. "I don't sense any persistent effort to wrap Obama in the Lincoln mantle. It's been tentative, aside from two events."

That's a "mistake," he added. Lincoln "redefined the presidency. There was humility, generosity, magnanimity about the man. That is missing from modern politics."

Obama doesn't have to be a messiah, just an example. "There is a way to extract the Lincoln DNA without putting on the stovepipe hat," Smith noted. "I would distinguish between holding up the Lincoln example as finding inspiration, rather than equating oneself with Lincoln."

Lincoln's most eloquent moments came in crisis. In 1862, during the ferocious debate over the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln sent this message to Congress: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. ... We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

Talk about the right occasion. We are mired in a disastrous war. Last week, the U.S. banking system and stock markets barely dodged catastrophe.

So why isn't Obama mentioning Lincoln at every turn? I suspect one reason: Lincoln was a pivotal figure in emancipating the slaves. Race is the third rail of the Obama campaign. They don't want to go there.