mtfester@netscape.net wrote:
> Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>> Norman Diamond wrote:
>>> "From each according to her abilities,
>>> to each according to his needs"
>>> is the paramount ideal of Communism.
> 
>> http://www.lp.org/lpnews/0206/review.html
> 
>> "45% think that Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto's "from each according to
>> his abilities, to each according to his needs" is part of the U.S.
>> Constitution."
> 
>> This is how Democrats get elected.
> 
> Like Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln?

Hmm, is this a joke?  They were both Republicans.  Until Roosevelt
started the Bull Moose party, of course.

"In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the
election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation
that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html

"Home from the war a hero, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in
the fall of 1898, but his enthusiasm for reform so provoked the state's
Republican leaders that they arranged for him to run as the party's
vice presidential candidate in 1900. When the Republican ticket won,
Roosevelt was out of their hair."

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/roosevelt.htm

FWIW...