The sad thing is, I think there is a LOT of similarity between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama.
Fortunately, it’s been 15 months, and we still haven’t had a violent Civil War . . at least yet
Not at all. Lincoln always wanted to work within some sort of more-or-less American framework, although a lot more like Hamilton's original idea (proposed as a red herring, actually, to the Philadelphia convention as a debating tactic) of an overly-strong, centralized, almost authoritarian republic (or about what we have today in essence).
Obama is actively working to turn the United States into a totalitarian dictatorship. Worlds apart.