do you think that abe lincoln would make a good president in today's world?

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Yes but he would never get elected, he was a classical liberal like our founders, he would be to conservative for most American.
 
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I don't consider a man whose election in 1860 was the tipping point that led 6 states to leave a voluntary Union and whose subsequent request to several other states to raise armies to invade their neighbors thus forcing several other states to choose to leave a voluntary Union, then using force to keep 11 states under a government they did not want a good President.

Never mind the 620,000 dead, countless maimed and an entire region left destroyed, destitute and angry all because they sought only what their ancestors desired..... independence.


No, he would not be a good President today just as he wasn't in 1860-1864.


You can choose to believe Lincoln went to war to save the Union and free the slaves but the truth is that when the Confederacy was formed, the flow of millions of dollars annually from the South to the Federal government ceased.

The government, under the direction of Lincoln, determined that if the government was to be denied those funds, then so too must the Confederacy be denied those funds.


“So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many other evils … the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.” – Charles Dickens, as editor of All the Year Round, a British periodical in 1862


The mechanics of the Emancipation Proclamation was further evidence to foreign observers of Lincoln’s perfidy.

"The principle [of the Proclamation] is not that a human being cannot justly own another," the London Spectator observed on October 11, 1862, "but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States" government.

Personally, I find Obama’s professed admiration of Lincoln exceedingly disturbing.
 
he would be in trouble with his stand on slavery and wealth.( for clarification read the books on the life of Lincoln).
 
yes..a man of determination,steel,greatness,i wish he would be immortal.i dont mind having him as a president all my life dude

just take a look at his life...it will inspire you the way he overcame all odds and became pres
 
I think he would make a great president, its just that a lot of people would not like him at all.
 
The left would detest him. I mean, not even George W. Bush suspended the writ of habeaus corpus...
 
Highly unlikely that he'd have good ideas for the problems in todays world.
 
Of course- he was against inequality. His beliefs are universal. If he was a President today he would be born into our society and would be up to date on the issues for all of the dim wits who think he'd be wearing a top hat and long black coat.
 
I think he was made for his time period and i'm glad that he did what he did.
 
First he was a republican, so the Media would shred him up, make him out to be a right wing radical. They would shred his wife due to mild mental illness. And the fact that he was not handsome that would be the final nail in the coffin.
 
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