Posted on 01/20/2018 7:13:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
It often looked like Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t survive his first year as president.
The mere fact of his election so infuriated seven southern states that they seceded from the Union before he was sworn into office. Rumors of an assassination plot caused him to sneak ignominiously into Washington for his inauguration, disguised in a cap and cloak that for weeks became objects of derision by cartoonists.
A horrible first year for one of the nation’s greatest presidents might serve as a source of inspiration for Donald Trump who’s had his own rocky start —except.
Except just about everything.
Lincoln constantly sought to uplift the country and bring it together, reminding Americans of the “better angels of our nature,” not to divide and denigrate as this president does on an almost daily, sometimes hourly, basis.
Though the president remained single-minded in his pursuit of Union, Lincoln voiced self-doubt, something we’ve never known Donald Trump to do.
Naming past presidents, Lincoln insisted “’they were just as good, and would have done just as I have if the time had come.”
Can you imagine Trump saying that? Or showing “as much respect and kindness to the colored persons present as to the whites,” as Sojourner Truth said Lincoln had done?
Donald Trump had a rough first year. That’s where his similarity to our 16th president ends.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Gotta give her this one. She would know about rough years!
When the last of these old recycled Democrat media types croaks, there ought to be a national party. We can only hope we live to see the day, but never having done an honest day’s work in their lives gives them obscene longevity.
Accomplishing more goals in his first year than any President in the last 50. Yeah, that’s ‘rough’.
Lincoln followed a total A-Hole Democrat President Buchannon who was known as the “worst president ever” Until Trump followed the new “worst president ever,” A-Hole Democrat President Obama.
Dear Speaker Ryan, if you're
not going to use your Congressional Majority
would you mind if I borrowed it?
Lincoln was dealing with a Democrat stacked Supreme Court, so is Trump.
Cokie hiding the fact that she probably believes that Lincoln was a gay, slavery-loving racist?
The country was divided and ready for an internal war when Lincoln took over, same for Trump.
Talk about a rough first year!
Cokie looks like a meth head.
News and analysis from the swamp she-beast, Coke-head cokie.
But what does Sam Donaldson think?
Lincoln wanted to send all blacks back to Africa. Did she mention that?
After the Dread Scott Case, Blacks were considered property totally under the control of their owners.
After the Roe vs Wade case, Babies in the womb are considered property and subject to control and disposal of their mothers.
Not comparable on any level....
Lying bitch.
Trump constantly talks about uniting America. However the Democrats don’t want to do it.
So... Now, wait one... So... Lincoln is OK again?
I mean... wasn’t he — along with everybody else who might be held up as an American Good Guy In History — wasn’t Lincoln just the other day a BAD guy?
Cheeeze, it’s hard to keep with with revisionists...
There are way too many posts on FR these days from MSM propaganda outlets. We get it! What’s left to say? I come here to get away from that stuff.
Kooky.
She’s going for the Rather Prize for Fakenews Journalism.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.