Good article.. for some reason, there is an anti-Lincoln contingent here, but to each his own I guess..
And they should be here in five...four...three...two...
No President was more consistent in ignoring the U S Constitution than Abraham Lincoln. It still amazes me when he is referred to as someone who obeyed it while he closed newspapers and jailed judges, for example.
Count me in, I am pro Constitution. Lincoln was not.
Lincoln was a great man, and a great president - but attributing the defense of the constitution his way is just ridiculous. He was faced with a real constitutional crises when half the country decided to break away, and in holding the U.S. together was forced to abrogate said document more than any other president before or since.
This article as about as much nonsense as the flurry of recent articles from the left comparing Zero to Lincoln on the grounds of how ‘unifying’ they both are (hint: during his day, Lincoln was the most hated president ever).
Whatever your overall opinion of Lincoln, I don’t think he’s the best choice to hold out as an example of defending the constitution.
There isn't really an anti Lincoln contingent - what people get upset about is the historical revisionism that the anti southerners use to smear the South. Many of us feel Lincon was a great man who did what he had to in order to presrve the union. Yet you get a lot of morons here like that guy on this thread who called out another on here as a Klan supporter. And you also get a lot of people who make claims that are simply 100% false - like someone on here who claimed on another thread that it was "imaginary" that there were Northerners who fought for the South (a fact that is easily disproved with a web search).
What's funny is that the same pop revisionism is now being turned on Lincoln - pop education is now trying to claim Lincoln was a racist, homosexual, etc...