Not many people at the time thought so. The Democrats hated him even more than they hate Bush today and the Republicans were convinced he would never win the election in November and tried to dump him.
Abe had very few friends in May of 64.
Not many people at the time thought so. The Democrats hated him even more than they hate Bush today and the Republicans were convinced he would never win the election in November and tried to dump him.
That's a a good point.
But by the third year of his administration, President Lincoln was adroitly wheeling and dealing on any number of issues.
The "bottom was out of the tub" early in his administration. The bottom continues to fall out of everything this administartion does.
By May of 1864, the rebellion was already noticably unraveling; the insurgency against us in Iraq seems stronger than ever and maladroit actions by the Bush people are putting us further and further behind the power curve and costing us the lives of our people unnecessarily.
What this thing with the abused POW's suggests -- the fact that Bush wasn't briefed on it by DOD (apparently), is that he is not fully in control of the apparatus.
Walt