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Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?

 
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Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
There was some stuff he did well, but there are other things I think weren't so fantastic.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wasnt, he was a pathetic piece of shit, who destroyed the constitution at every turn... he put over 300 reporters in prison who spoke out against his policy to start a civil war. which every state knew would kill thousands of people...
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Because history is written by the victors.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He said he would ship the negroes off to their own colony ?


He instituted martial law and was shot (thereby never lifting it (this is a bigone)) ?
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wore a tremendous hat.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
I belong to an American history book club. It is generally acknowledged that more books have been written about President Lincoln than any other historical figure except for Jesus Christ. That says a lot. And why so? Well, he did save the greatest country in the world from dissolution and that likely says it all.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He was amazing because he would rather of taken a bullet in the back of the head then sit through some Illuminati presentation at the theatre.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He issued his own interest free currency like Kennedy. What do they both have in common?
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He did what he had to do to preserve our union. And he did succeeded, he lived long enough to see the South surrender. For keeping these United States in tact he is one of our greatest presidents.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
I belong to an American history book club. It is generally acknowledged that more books have been written about President Lincoln than any other historical figure except for Jesus Christ. That says a lot. And why so? Well, he did save the greatest country in the world from dissolution and that likely says it all.
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There are some that would make the argument he empowered the Federal Government and forcibly removed states' rights, as someone has already posted.

There are others who would say his actions saved the USA.

I think most all of us would agree slavery is patently wrong. Providing freedom to slaves was certainly a necessity. I don't know that the methodology was very tactful. I think the Emancipation Proclamation was used as a war tactic more than anything else.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wore a tremendous hat.
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yes, this is it. tallest hat = most amazing.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He issued his own interest free currency like Kennedy. What do they both have in common?
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This ^^^ He fought the money changers. For that he was killed. As well as Kennedy. Politicians nowadays do not stand up to the bankers... they follow their orders.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
There was some stuff he did well, but there are other things I think weren't so fantastic.
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Violent death while in office tends to lionize US presidents.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He was a racist against slaves and the South. One of the main reasons for the war was taxes on the cotton the south had to have milled in the northern factories.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Because nobody was there at this time.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wasnt, he was a pathetic piece of shit, who destroyed the constitution at every turn... he put over 300 reporters in prison who spoke out against his policy to start a civil war. which every state knew would kill thousands of people...
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Be kind! His harshness was probably the result of frustration at having to hide his homosexuality, and live with a woman.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
OP, what is it about Lincoln that bothers you?
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
The guy was epic. His life, his appearance, just look at the guy:

Antietam w/ Mclellan:
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w/ Mclellan's troops:
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Another one at Antietam ... he's ike Akhenaten compared w/ the average joe:
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wasnt, he was a pathetic piece of shit, who destroyed the constitution at every turn... he put over 300 reporters in prison who spoke out against his policy to start a civil war. which every state knew would kill thousands of people...
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Because history is written by the victors.
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Because history is written by the victors.
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Those two posts sum it up...
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Because he had the balls to what was right for the UNITED states of America, not each state individually. Can you imagine each of our 50 states operating as an individual "country" with it's own laws, currency...Look at Europe.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He was a racist against slaves and the South. One of the main reasons for the war was taxes on the cotton the south had to have milled in the northern factories.
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Complete and utter bullshit. The Jesuit order of the vatican initiated the US Civil War to transform the United States into a centrally controlled tool of their conquest for global hegemony. Lincoln was forced to make the decisions he did to save the Union, and ultimately, the country. He was then assassinated by them for it, not unlike they did w/ JFK 100 years later. By the way, JFK and Lincoln have ridiculous parallels, look it up.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wasnt, he was a pathetic piece of shit, who destroyed the constitution at every turn... he put over 300 reporters in prison who spoke out against his policy to start a civil war. which every state knew would kill thousands of people...
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Be kind! His harshness was probably the result of frustration at having to hide his homosexuality, and live with a woman.
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We are talking about Lincoln not how many cocks your father had ran up his ass.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Judge a man by his own words and actions, not the hearsay of others.


“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”

Abrham Lincoln at the 4th debate with Stephen Douglass.


No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give Congress the power to abolish or interfere within any state with the domestic institutions thereof, including that a person's held to labor or service by laws of said State."

-Abraham Lincoln-March of 1861


"....You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word, we suffer on each side. If this be admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated. It is better for both, therefore, to be separated.”

- Abraham Lincoln spoken to black community leaders at the White House

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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
because he brought real change to the country, albeit for the worst.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He wasnt, he was a pathetic piece of shit, who destroyed the constitution at every turn... he put over 300 reporters in prison who spoke out against his policy to start a civil war. which every state knew would kill thousands of people...
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Be kind! His harshness was probably the result of frustration at having to hide his homosexuality, and live with a woman.
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We are talking about Lincoln not how many cocks your father had ran up his ass.
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That would be Abraham Lincoln, a tyrant who fortunately was assasinated in time to become a legend.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Abe took a stand for the Constitution. I don't agree with everything he did, but he did it because he thought it was in the best interest of the country. Right or wrong, his intention was to uphold the Constitution, and he did the best he could, under the circumstances. You can disagree with him (as I do in some cases), but he stood up for his beliefs. He was true to his heart. Now we have a president that doesn't stand for anything but personal gratification. He and his puppeteers have used the Constitution for a doormat. I think they are trying to see how far he can push us. They may be close to the limit.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Abe took a stand for the Constitution. I don't agree with everything he did, but he did it because he thought it was in the best interest of the country. Right or wrong, his intention was to uphold the Constitution, and he did the best he could, under the circumstances. You can disagree with him (as I do in some cases), but he stood up for his beliefs. He was true to his heart. Now we have a president that doesn't stand for anything but personal gratification. He and his puppeteers have used the Constitution for a doormat. I think they are trying to see how far he can push us. They may be close to the limit.
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Took a stand? Is that how you justify the same unconstitutional acts that Barry O does?

Don't buy the propaganda you're fed.

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As to the OP, Most people consider Abe a great President & CEO because most people are ill informed and aggressive towards views that challenge what they believe to be true.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
Kennedy, Hitler, Garfield, McKinley, Lincoln,
and Jesus Christ were all done in by the money men.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
The illuminati wants it that way and so that is the way it is.
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Re: Why is Abraham Lincoln considered by many to be an amazing President?
He issued his own interest free currency like Kennedy. What do they both have in common?
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This ^^^ He fought the money changers. For that he was killed. As well as Kennedy. Politicians nowadays do not stand up to the bankers... they follow their orders.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23766809


That is pure bullshit especially about Kennedy. He had no intention of getting rid of the fed or fighting the money changers.





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