what about abe lincoln?ing that conservative return to. >> to echo what jamelle's saying, lincoln is response ebl f responsible for theestan existef the federal government. they like to think of him as the father of the republican party, when it comes to the specific thing, which is that he -- we think well of him as american people. it's not even that he freed slaves so much. it's they're trying to piggy back on the fact that people like abe lincoln. go ahead. >> i was going to say, jamelle, it's worth noting that you noted this, levied the first income tax on the country, something conservatives hate. i though there's a lot of back and forth online and in print about race this week, and going back and forth about conservatives and their relation to it. jonathan, who has a massive piece in "new york" magazine, hotly debated, he writes, effectively racial conservatism used to be similar things, now they are effectively the same thing. i think no other person bears this out better than rush limbaugh, i must p

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imagine if abe lincoln had served his term and painted afterwards and he gave us paintings of himselfs almost freakish. >>> and then to paint world leaders, right? so he's painting his counterparts. we'll put these up so people can see them if they haven't yet. first, this is maliki. this is from iraq. and then we have, let's show the next one, this is bush's friend, tony blair, former prime minister of britain. and then we have this, vladimir putin. we have been talking about him a lot in the news. -- >> you. >> why wow? what do you think about this? >> i have to say, this is the man that had bush at hello. and bush looked into his soul and saw a good man, and the strangeness of this portrait, of those eyes just looking right back at us does border on the freakish. and it is really a strange picture. especially when you consider that it was painted by george bush. i would love to have seen him paint, say, scenes from his own presidency, of rove, of cheney, of rumsfeld. >> this may be just the beginning. >> well, it's a good begin. if i could give him one council, i would say don't re

republicans that really hate this president as much as their predecessors probably hated abe lincoln. and it was all about slavery. all about slavery. and you go to the parts of south america, the caribbean islands, mexico, all you see are remnants of slavery. even puerto rico. but here in this country, where we thought we had broken out of the civil war, what the heck does it take for people to nderstand that you shouldn't hate the president so much that you're ready to destroy the republican party, the entire congress, but most of all the people of this great country. we have been able to take people of all colors, all blood, all languages and they didn't come here and just fall in love with each other. they hardly knew each other. but somehow they set aside became ferences and the power of the world and that power just wasn't in dollars and cents and the ability to have more than any other country in wealth, but it was hope. it was the ability to believe. that no matter what level of you conomy you are in, could achieve. this could not be said for many of the countries in europe. t

. >> you just turned my history into something close to abe lincoln. >> by candlelight. >> and i usedad to get the water out of the well. >> we had well water, too. a dozen minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, hillary clinton wants to be president. why is she stalling on declaring that? charles gasparino says there is one simple reason and it's her former boss, barak obama. he joins us with what it will take for hillary to move past obama hangover coming up. >> and thousands of students, 68 pop songs, six minutes all in one take. these teens are going viral for all the right reasons. ♪ ♪ try dulcolax laxative tablets. dulcolax is comfort-coated for gentle, over-night relief. dulcolax. predictable over-night relief you can count on. still runnng in the morning? yeah. getting your vegebles every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. two full servings of vegetables life with crohn's disease ois a daily game of "what if's". what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night before it even sta

revolutionary war to free the billionaires and therefore moneys in the first amendment and that abe lincoln fought the civil war to free the corporations and therefore corporations are in the fourteenth amendment those being the two findings of citizens united but you know there could be other causes as well but are is there not a genuine element of populism here the driving this that really we should all take seriously and address your own particular ways john if. you want to know don i actually don't think so i think that the problem of the equation is you're leaving out the other half richard mattick and the rest of it is for right courts like to talk about it's not just that at the top there are those elites have power issue and money but at the same time there is at the bottom the multicultural hordes as they discuss them and it is the collusion between the tunnel and the bottom that is squeezing so. middle americans talk about music kind of middle american nationalism that i think is different than a kind of pop it was it's so we don't think it's really the same kind of populism at al