[BroJoeK]

CodeToad: "What’s yer point?
Mine is that he was not a humble little guy, rather he was a rich master politician, a lawyer at that, and far from this soft spoken guy we should all admire as the perfect atitude of an American.
He was crooked a liar as any politician."

From all reports of people who knew him, Lincoln was as humble, soft-spoken and honest as any lawyer-politician ever.

By 1860 at age 51, Lincoln was no longer poor, but still far from wealthy.
And in the end, it didn't much matter how much money Lincoln earned, because his wife always insisted on spending more. ;-)

And no one ever said Lincoln was a "little guy".
He stood six feet four inches tall and thin.
In those physical characteristics he resembled another leader of the time, Jefferson Davis.

Of course Lincoln was no uneducated or inexperienced back-country hay-seed.
But he did come from humble origins, and was entirely self-taught.

Confederate propaganda describing him otherwise is, well, just that -- propaganda.

[CodeToad]

“Soft spoken” is far from a description of humble given his dictatorship and tyrannical actions. He was a tyrant.