Well Obama wants to be like Lincoln, and didn’t Lincoln have political enemies jailed?
“Well Obama wants to be like Lincoln, and didn’t Lincoln have political enemies jailed?”
Indeed he did. In order to “save” the constitution, President Lincoln ignored the constitution. He arrested legistlators in border states to keep them from succeeding. When the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ruled him unconstitutional, POTUS Lincoln considered having the Chief Justice arrested....fortunately cooler heads prevailed and quietly kept him from doing so. Regardless of how one views the rightness or wrongness of the civil war...from either side. I think it is safe to say Lincoln did all kinds of violations of the rule of law.
Although, for the most part, Lincoln’s actions ultimately indirectly ended many wrongs (slavery). I don’t want any other POTUS to attempt to do the things POTUS Lincoln did. Especially one, IMO, that is of questionable eligibility to be POTUS. Even that being ignored. Barrack Obama is NOT Abraham Lincoln.