“NOPE. it is called POLITICS. lincoln, like “wee willie klintoon”, would SAY and/or DO anything to GET elected & GET AHEAD.
regardless of the “lincoln myth”, lincoln was no better/worse than clinton as POTUS. he was simply a cheap, scheming politician. (NOTE: getting killed does NOT make you a saint. lincoln & jfk were BOTH UNworthy of the “secular sainthood” which the media placed upon their memory.)
NOTHING that would advance their WISHES, power and/or EGOMANIA was “out of bounds”. NEITHER would tolerate disagreement with their demands. NEITHER tolerated criticism well (lincoln, for example, JAILED many newspapermen in a dungeon at Ft McHenry for publishing critical comments about him, without even the pretense of an indictment, warrant or trial. they were simply JAILED!)
the FACTS are that those two were the WORST presidents ever.
free dixie,sw”
I’m a huge Lincoln fan, like most real Americans. That’s why he has that huge Memorial on the bank of the Potomac.
My favorite part of the Civil War was the Emancipation Proclamation. It caused absolute havoc in the Confederacy. Tens of thousands of blacks left southern farms and plantations and headed for Union Army lines. By the end of the war the North had 180,000 additional black troops who were armed and trained to go kill their former owners.
try reading THE REAL LINCOLN, by Tom DiLorenzo, for a TRUTHFUL re-look at the TYRANT.
should "the hilleyBEAST" win in 2008/2012 (SHUDDER!!!), perhaps wee willie klintoon will have his very own "MONSTROSITY on the Potomac".(fwiw, it doesn't take anything but MONEY to erect a memorial!)
fwiw, i've suggested that the "memorial to the tyrant" should be moved to DAMNyankeeland & out of VA or perhaps it should be turned into an artificial reef in the Chesapeake Bay, so that "DIShonest abe, the clay-footed secular saint of DAMnyankeeland" can "sleep with the fishes".
free dixie,sw
it's never easy to put away "childish things", but that is a part of "growing up" chronologically & intellectually.
seeing the UNcomfortable truth about the "lincoln myth" is part of that intellectual "growing up" process.
free dixie,sw