It seems to me that there were many similarities between the presidential elections of 1864 and 2004. John Freekin Kerry was about as much of a war hero as George Brinton McClellan. Maybe some day they'll name a fort after him, too.
The left really hated last year's election being compared to the 1864 campaign but the similarities were striking.
McClellan was no great general but Kerry, an incompetent commander of a brown water gun boat, wouldn't amount to a pimple on his backside. If McClellan had done some of the things Kerry did, i.e. meet with Confederate officials to discuss a cessation of the war, fabricate reports of wounds in order to obtain decorations, summarily execute a badly wounded enemy combatant, he'd have been hung or shot at dawn.