[GoldStandard]

Har, har. Yeah right. The only thing Lincoln did right was attend Our American Cousin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Civil_liberties_suspended

"During the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he used his war powers to proclaim a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money before Congress appropriated it, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial."

I'm sure if Obama did that is this time of war, you'd be pleased as punch...right?

[Colonel Kangaroo]

"During the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he used his war powers to proclaim a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money before Congress appropriated it, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial."

Good for Lincoln, I wished he had done more to our enemies. He was faced with a traitorous insurrection whose fondest wish was the intervention of foreign powers to kill their fellow Americans in the defense of their precious slavery. If Obama or any other president was faced with a similar group of America haters I would hope he'd do the same thing as Lincoln.

I'd rather have been a Southern sympathiser in Lincoln's North than a Union sympathizer in Jeff Davis's banana republic.