[robowombat]

Cultish adulation of politicians only blinds one to political realities and reduces history to a cartoonish story line with simplistic heroes and villains. Elevating any politician to the level of a secular deity as has been done first by the GOP and then by the leftist statists who came after reflects poorly on what is supposed to be a republic. Our leaders are not gods but men. Seeing them as gods, as Lincoln seated like Zeus at Olympia in a pseudo-Greek temple is a monument to the debasement of the republic. Lincoln was a clever politician nothing more. He stumbled into a civil war because he as most men in the North, could not believe the South was really serious about separating. He compounded his blunder by pushing the states of the upper South out of the Union by apportioning his call for volunteers to those states as well as the North. Lincoln the President is worth studying not as some comic book figure but as the relentless pragmatist who would do what ever it took to win. A man with no fixed principles but clear goals and objectives he is a model of the ruthless power driven success oriented leader. Unfortunately he is not around to deal with the Muslims. I am sure he could figure out how to do a Burning billy Sherman act on them while claiming he was liberating them for a ‘new birth of freedom’ or something.

[Paperdoll]

I do not think of Abraham Lincoln s a politician, a god, or even an idol of any kind. I think of him as a human being who, through his faith, rose above difficult times, rejection, the and stupidity of his peers to achieve through human trial and error the goals God had in mind for him. I also think of him as a kindred soul.