mysteryman wrote:snood wrote:Even you aren't so dense as to think Lincoln equates to the field of GOP candidates today. Aren't you?
I quoted ebrown word for word.
There was no qualifier as to anything.
ebrown said...
Hillary sucks (still, ANY Democrat is better than ANY Republican).
Where is the qualifier there?
The sentence is written in present tense-- and Republicans back then were a completely different party than modern Republicans are today (how many Republicans back then would have fought to keep the Confederate flag flying over statehouses).
That being said... I probably wouldn't have liked Lincoln much had I been alive in that time. His attitude toward slavery (by my not to deep understanding) was much like Hillary's attitude on the war and other important issues.
I would have been a fervent abolitionist and wanted the president to have comitted to strong, immediate action to end slavery.
And, I have sometimes wondered if fighting the civil war was a mistake (for the North).