You are right about one thing. Lincoln was smart. In fact he was brilliant. But he used that intelligence to destroy the nation.
Now he didn’t destroy it right then but he sowed the seeds which produced Obama and the shape this country is in now.
Lincoln is to be blamed more than anyone for the Federal takeover of the nation.
Theodore Roosevelt was a great man and a great president but he also started some things which eventually turned out rotten. Don’t get me wrong, I admire TR tremendously and suspect he would have done some things differently if he knew how they would evolve.
On the other hand, Lincoln did exactly what he wanted to do and it was evil. Despite that, his death was the worst thing which could have happened to the South.
No one but those lost causers on FR will believe that garbage. Good day.