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Abraham Lincoln was the epitome of honesty and Godliness. Also for these two rare virtues, he was loved and hated. He pondered every aspect of a problem, then he did the RIFHTR THING. His wit was unequaled then and now.He was tall in stature, and also literally towered intellectually over men. God sent him to us at a point in time the country needed him. President Lincoln served his God, and his country, well.

May God pleasse send us such a man as Abraham Lincoln today. AMEN

The historical facts show that Lincoln did not establish liberty in America; he unleashed terror. Lincoln shredded the Constitution; ignored the courts; obstructed free and fair elections; criminalized speech; outlawed dissent; refused to honor existing treaties with Indian nations; proclaimed women and children, the sick, and the elderly legitimate military targets; and waged an unprovoked and illegal war, which killed more than 600,000 Americans.

Cultish adulation of politicians only blinds one to political realities and reduces history to a cartoonish story line with simplistic heroes and villains. Elevating any politician to the level of a secular deity as has been done first by the GOP and then by the leftist statists who came after reflects poorly on what is supposed to be a republic. Our leaders are not gods but men. Seeing them as gods, as Lincoln seated like Zeus at Olympia in a pseudo-Greek temple is a monument to the debasement of the republic. Lincoln was a clever politician nothing more. He stumbled into a civil war because he as most men in the North, could not believe the South was really serious about separating. He compounded his blunder by pushing the states of the upper South out of the Union by apportioning his call for volunteers to those states as well as the North. Lincoln the President is worth studying not as some comic book figure but as the relentless pragmatist who would do what ever it took to win. A man with no fixed principles but clear goals and objectives he is a model of the ruthless power driven success oriented leader. Unfortunately he is not around to deal with the Muslims. I am sure he could figure out how to do a Burning billy Sherman act on them while claiming he was liberating them for a ‘new birth of freedom’ or something.