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I wonder if they will ever mention that Lincoln wanted the blacks returned to Africa, not to stay here and become citizens.

You should study the ideas of colonization and understand why many people supported it. They predicted correctly that even with the end of slavery, blacks would not be accepted as full citizens in this nation. He and others like James Madison, Henry Clay and even R.E. Lee saw colonization as a way for blacks to establish their own nation where they could really be free. It was not a hatred of blacks that drove him to those beliefs, but an understanding that white America would not allow blacks to be equal. 100 years after Lincoln's death, blacks were still being denied fundimental liberties.

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"The problem with this comment is that we don't actually have any idea what Lincoln's attitude was. His public statements conflict wildly."

We have neither the ability or the right to judge what was in the heart of the man.

You can select from all that even Clinton said and make him out to be whatever you choose.

Lincoln was a politician-superb as, by the way, Clintons are. I doubt anyone can step behind the facade which that erects and ferret out what was there in Lincoln's case.

Much as I honor/respect Reagan his politician side creates a screen, too.