[Ninian Dryhope]

The same clowns would be the first ones to bash the President if we were attacked again with thousands of Americans killed, claiming that he had not done all that was possible to protect us.

The President just has to keep on doing what he thinks is the right thing to do and shrug off the many, carping critics. Carping critics come with the Big Job. If the President does his job, history will see him right.

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

[mathluv]

Good quote, and so true.

[cynicom]

Honest Abe was a bit of a hypocrite...In a speech in congress in 1848, he was ranting that the "people" had a right to throw off the shackles of any government that became overbearing.

Yet when people spoke out against him during the Civil War he had them jailed.

Quoting Lincoln as a Saint always needs to be qualified.

[Thermalseeker]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Lincoln is also quoted as saying that "The Constitution is not a suicide pact" meaning that he would not let the country come to ruin because of civil war simply because the Constitution prevented him from doing the things necessary to prevent it.