IF you consider liberlism and his liberlism that great, then boo hooie for you dude. I am not impressed.
Oh, I'm sorry, I made the mistake of thinking someone who served in the Army long enough to retire would be smart enough to grasp a subtle point. Actually, that wasn't even a subtle point, so that makes it even more sad that you didn't get it.
Lincoln expanded the federal government and you can find plenty of Freepers who'll tell you he killed federalism and might as well have been a Democrat. TR expanded the federal government even more and made our foreign policy much more interventionist. Both of them in their time had detractors just like you who focused on one failing or another and couldn't see that they were good men doing a good job. And they were great. So is Dubya. And someday, the prattle of people like you will look as silly as the prattle of those who called Lincoln "the original gorilla" and other such names.