[alwaysconservative]

I just re-read the Kennedy statement and am almost speechless. He really thinks Lincoln brought the country TOGETHER during the Civil War? OMG. This silly, stupid man thinks that Lincoln united the country when he risked the end of these "united" states during the CIVIL war? Maybe he got more people to cheat for him than on his Spanish tests. These people are utterly pathetic.

[Molly Pitcher]

Lincoln united the country when he risked the end of these "united" states during the CIVIL war?

I wouldn't say "he risked the end of...", always...

His goal was to keep the country united in order to bring about the end of slavery.

Unfortunately, his election was seen as a provocation by the South, and the individual states called for a Secession Convention, and the whole thing took off...

Then, during the War, the North itself was not united, and the 1864 election was a close, very close thing..

So Kennedy's statement is as wrong as it could possibly be...

I write this as someone who had ancestors attending that Secession Convention, and fighting on the confederate side, AND Abolitionist Quakers and others working to maintain the Union and end slavery.