Lincoln split the nation in two and started the bloodiest war in US history. That’s #1?
Any list that starts with him is using middle school history as their guide so if Obama is 12, then everyone 13 and lower on the list is probably just a faceless name to them and they were ranked randomly.
I agree 100%.
I rate him as one of the worst presidents of all time but I have taken a lot of flak over that.
Almost everyone who doesn't think for himself believes Lincoln walked on water.
Lincoln presided over a war that left 600,000 dead and 400,000 wounded over a period of 4 years.
He did almost nothing to avoid the conflict or bring it to an early end.
He was a politician first and formost and usually made the choices that benefited him politically.
And he left the nation divided in ways that persist even today, over 150 years later.
That casualty rate was about 3% of the population at the time. when the population was less than 1/10 of the population today.
A war today with that rate of casualties would result in over 6 million dead and 4 million wounded.
Think how crazy people went over Vietnam with less than 60,000 US casualties.
How would they handle 10 million killed and wounded?
Any list that starts with him is using middle school history as their guide so if Obama is 12, then everyone 13 and lower on the list is probably just a faceless name to them and they were ranked randomly.
So if he let the country fall apart and the slavers take all the federal property they could, he'd have been a better president?
And neo-Confederate revisionism isn't usually on a "middle school" level?