and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
was president, he had given the famous, you know, a nation divided against the self cannot stand speech, as if he knew all along that it was going to it was going to come to that. was he playing for time until the moment was right or was this a genuine shift in lincoln s thinking? well, as a conscientious politician, which is not an oxymoron, and i think that s one of the key points here is that if you re going to send someone to the pinnacle of power, you need to make sure there is a moral compass, there is a commitment to something larger than your own hold on power, and in many ways, i think that s a hugely important lesson about lincoln for us today. he was anti-slavery persistently. in the politics of the time, he believed that slavery could not be extended to the territories.
beschloss. by the way, barnicle almost selected as secretary of war. scandal. but first, the washington post eugene robinson is still with us, and he has the first question. gene. jon, congratulations on the book, and i will read it eagerly. i m curious, it wasn t really until he got into the war that the sort of stated and open goal of lincoln was to get rid of slavery. and he tried everything to kind of keep the union together, yet earlier, before he was president, he had given the famous, you know, a nation divided against itself self cannot stand speech, as if he knew all along that it was going