[swmobuffalo]

Don't like clams. Don't like New England either.
Lincoln was was not a hero nor a saint nor a "great" president. You seriously need to do some studying of history from the original viewpoint.
Lincoln had no interest in freeing the slaves. He had no interest in keeping the freed slaves in the states. The only thing he was interested in was the money the Southern states were providing for the "upkeep" of the Federal Government. Look it up.

[M. Espinola]

There lies your problema. One which does not like clams, and where the best clams originate, New England, is already beginning from a clouded view point.

I bet you have never been in New England long enough to sample the summer's best, baked or broiled scallops

& all those Cape Cod fried clams, or Rhode Island steamers, plus Boston's rich clam chowder coupled along with scrod of the day.

How would you like a fine Manhattan glat kosher deli?

All that stuff about President Lincoln...I wonder if you would have been in favour of freeing the slaves back in the late 1850's & early 1860's?