What kind of piece of shit president declares war on states that want to peacefully secede and slaughters millions of Americans.
Now they want to compare Obama to Lincoln. Go figure. Two pieces of shit that deserve burning next to each other in hell.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31082165 Look at the picture on the wall
Let's see:
~suspends habeus corpus
~arrests the Maryland legislature because they might disagree with him
~is said to have an arrest warrant issued for the Supreme Chief Justice who disagreed with him on suspending rights
~arrested a few thousand newspaper editors and writers because they disagreed
~ deliberately acted to destroy the spirit and livelihoods of non combatants in the southern states, letting many freeze and suffer during the winter months, at a time (the mid 19th century) when non combatant civilians were still considered off limit by most civilized nations at war
~approved of measures to use rape as a weapon against the women of the occupied southern states
and on top of all that, didn't even seem to like the former slaves and was already making plans to ship them off to dig the Panama Canal to get them out of the USA
sure sounds like a wonderful role model to me...
and yes, I grew up with Lincoln hero worship like everyone else my age, and yes, he was a wonderful writer
but I read and re-read US history from 1789 to 1860, and no where could I see where states which had peaceably joined to form a union were told they would be crushed if they chose to exit.
If it had been there, I imagine almost none of the state representatives would have agreed to that clause, or signed the articles of confederation, as they had just fought the battle of their generation to get free of the yoke of a Monarchy
They had spent years crafting a document to ensure that they would have rights and freedoms going into the future, why would they agree to a union, an experiment in government which had no exit?
