re: It's Lincoln's birthday

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While Lincoln may have abused power, it is right to put it in perspective. He was president of a very young country on the verge of civil war. Any moves he made had huge impacts. It's hard to judge 150 years later.

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I'll judge. He's the greatest president this country could have hoped for and is largely responsible for the preservation of a young, regionally and culturally fractured union. Forging the identities of our several states into one nation underpinned this country's economic rise and ascension to great power status within a mere couple of decades of a ruinous war.

Reconstruction would have gone a lot better if that damn fool secessionist Booth hadn't murdered him.