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Why was Abe Lincoln a bad or good president?

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Please post what you think about Abe Lincoln, i want to know if he was a bad president or a good one.

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19 comments so far

B. Nash
 1 

He is the greatest President to date, in my opinion. Someone once said: “Washington is the father of our Country, but Lincoln is it’s Savior.” I cannot agree more.

February 14th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Chris
 2 

Well I consider him the best because he ended slavery. :)

February 14th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
B. Nash
 3 

Welcome back to the Cabin Chris. You’ve been away for awhile but it’s good to have you back for a visit. Pull up a chair and sit by the fire a spell. I love the reason you gave. Yes, because of Lincoln the nightmare of slavery ended. Thank God.

February 14th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Bob
 4 

He kept the union together didn’t he?

Unless you are a ******** Southern nationalist, you should probably consider Lincoln to be in the top three presidents.

February 15th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Nate
 5 

There are some who HATE him. It depends on your point of view. However, the majority of people rate him as one of the greatest-if not the greatest.

February 17th, 2010 at 11:46 am
J.L.
 6 

He achieved a lot of good. But he was not a very good person.

February 18th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
ATTENTION: Testicles That Is All
 7 

Depends if you lived in the North or South.

February 18th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Henrietta Hughes
 8 

Abe freed my peeps so we could be on welfare for 140yrs.

February 22nd, 2010 at 5:15 am
Geoffrey
 9 

The best!

February 23rd, 2010 at 2:32 pm
ck4829
 10 

Good.

1. He emancipated the slaves

2. He took down the legion of inbred hicks otherwise known as the “Confederacy”

February 24th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
duvvbrand
 11 

If you understand the history of world banking, probably not. Abe kinda made himself the dictator during the Civil War (for a good reason in his opinion). Abe’s “union” set the stage for the Federal Reserve bank we have today. The U.S. is owned by bankers.

EIDT: Also, Abe only emancipated slaves in the Southern states, not in the Union states. It was a tactic to undercut the southern war effort.

February 26th, 2010 at 7:46 am
martinx07
 12 

I cannot accept Lincoln to be a good President because he suspended habeas corpus. He also violated state rights (confederacy).

February 28th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Nate
 13 

The “Lost Cause” lives on.

March 1st, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Kwanzaa Baby
 14 

Depends on what side of the Mason-Dixon your family was on in the 1860s.

He preserved the Union while destroying States rights in the USA.
He ended slavery to **** off the South.
He suspended Habeas Corpus and was considered a butcher to some.
The Gettysburg Address was an awesome speech written at the last moment and was short and to the point.
He can be found on a Penny or Five Dollar bill.

My relatives were still overseas, so he predates my American Ancestors.

March 3rd, 2010 at 2:34 pm
RayIsBack
 15 

Mr Lincoln was a great man He was an abolitionist [opposed to slavery] He said slavery was an abomination before God That no man can be free if some were slaves
There is much rewriting of history and many want to paint him as a black hating white man But Mr Obama admires him there would nothing to admire if the civil war was not about slavery he would just be a man who lead us into a disastrous war
just read the silly half wit posts ”states rights” the only right they wanted was to have slaves Why did they want to break away from the union.To keep the right to say y’all?
I’m a southern boy my state of Texas was at 1st not allowed into union as we were a slave state this was going on all over the union slave free state Right after Mr Lincoln was elected the south My south,the south that I love Declared war on the union
As an aside my beloved grandfather hated Mr Lincoln and Yankees He was wrong about Mr Lincoln

dunbran Good God I can’t take it ”Abe did not set the slave free in the union ”[north] Good god man slavery was outlawed in the north that is were blacks slaves run too To prevent war earlier They passed a law southerns could come to the north and could prove these were their slave take them back Grand pop was right Yankees are lying .rude,SOB’s
He also did not like the english as well Two out of three is not bad

March 6th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Bill H
 16 

He was a bad president. He waged war on his own people. You can’t get much worse than that. Lincoln was responsible for the deaths of more Americans than all other presidents combined.

Lincoln was not interested in ending slavery; that was just a by-product that would have happened eventually anyway. He was only interested in “preserving the Union” — codeword for maintaining and expanding Federal power over the states and the people.

How in the world is “preserving the union” worth 600,000 lives?

March 9th, 2010 at 1:47 am
pjkondorpoduszlo
 17 

Lincoln weather you agree or disagree with him was a great President in terms of how he executed what he did. He was the most hands on President in terms of military strategy the country had ever seen. He read books on military strategy and taught himself how to manage a war; and he went through one head General after another until he found the man he believed to be the right one in Ulysses Grant. Plus while he knew from the time he won the election that war with the south was imminent; he waited until the South fired the first shots at Fort Sumter; so that he could claim the so called “moral high ground” and not portray himself as a warmonger. His firm resolve was to hold the Union together; and if it weren’t for him we might very well be two separate countries right now.

And after the war was over; he advocated a policy of healing and not punishing the South, treating them as countrymen as opposed to conquered enemies. Thus he was just as much an ambassador as he was military leader.

Plus more important than anything else; he was an honest person, and conducted himself with dignity and respectable fashion at all times. Plus he was a family man.

A great President Lincoln was.

March 10th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Sam
 18 

Just so everybody knows he didn’t end slavery he ended in the south the north were still allowed to keep there slave this was just a war tactic he created you have to remember he’s not a savior at all he starved out native American villages and the men who should get the credit for ending slavery should be U.S. Grant and JFK because it was U.S. Grant who passed the amendment that prohibited slavery and under JFK he gave equal rights to all US citizens it’s a insult to actually teach he ended slavery in schools it goes hand in hand with teaching Christopher as anything but a tyrant who led one of the biggest genocides in human history
The best thing Lincoln did was keep America united which is actually a very smart thing because were stronger united but that’s one of few things he did right which is not discussed by most school and if it is it’s glanced over very quick

December 19th, 2010 at 4:20 am
B. Nash
 19 

Sam: your ignorance is rather appalling.

December 19th, 2010 at 5:53 am

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