Comments on: Tuesday Turnip: 9 Little-Known Facts about Honest Abe

By: ran knox

ran knox — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:39:49 +0000

Anyone aware of Lincoln as a Tory?

By: gryphon50

gryphon50 — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:03:06 +0000

For the time, Lincoln was not racist, he was a moderate. Very much so. If you are looking for people from that era that were in favor of blacks being complete legal equals to whites, you are only talking about a small number of Abolitionists in the northeast. A fringe element of society, essentially. Many more people did not want blacks as slaves but were not at all in favor of really having them as equals. So I don’t think it’s fair to pin that label of “racism” on Lincoln.

By: bmiller

bmiller — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:14:51 +0000

One day while on the computer I decided to type in Abraham Lincoln. A website had a tab of “writings” or “letters”. In one of these letters Abraham Lincoln writes that Jesus is his savior. Flaws, we all have them, but salvation doesn’t depend on our character or effort, but on the character and sacrifice of Jesus.

By: Walter S.

Walter S. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:34:39 +0000

Jason’s comment that Lincoln was the worst President ever is totally & absolutely idiotic. His other remarks about Lincoln being a racist are equally flawed and the unfounded rantings of someone who is so out of touch with reality that it’s difficult to put into words.

I’ll put before Jason some other names he should have mentioned. James Earl Carter. Calvin Coolidge. Warren G. Harding. William Jefferson Clinton.

How in the world could Jason actually think such a thing?

Lincoln, as did other Presidents, had his flaws. He was given to periods of melancholy; he worried constantly over the war’s effect on his beloved nation; he mourned the death of his son the remainder of his office. And on an intellectual level, I’m thoroughly convinced he’d be able to run circles around virtually any president before or after him – with the exceptions of, perhaps, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan.

Given the historical implications of the Civil War, slavery, the state of the nation both before and after Lincoln, he was, in my opinion, the greatest President this nation has ever seen.

By: Abe

Abe — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:10:36 +0000

I have read all your comments and I say to all of you the following:
“My friends, no one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Without the assistance of the Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I can not fail. Trusting in him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To his care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.”

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:34:53 +0000

@hank,

As bad as Bush may be, neither he nor anyone else will most likely ever achieve the wanten fraud and disgrace of the Grant Presidency.

By: petal

petal — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:16:04 +0000

Lincoln used to take daily walks from the White House to temporary hospitals set up for injured civil war soldiers.

It was there that Walt Whitman became an admirer of him as a man and a President. So much that he wrote “O Captain! My Captain” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” about Lincoln’s Presidency and the procession of his body from D.C. to Illinois following his assassination.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:47:23 +0000

Our current tyrant took a page from old lincoln, as lincoln was the first president in our history to suspend habeas corpus.

By: mosey

mosey — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:01:10 +0000

why hasn’t the bush who has tanked the U.S had a similar dream?

By: hank

hank — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:31:22 +0000

@Jason

“Lincoln was the worst President in USA history.”

I don’t know whether you’ve been keeping up with current events, but the servant of Sauron who dwells in the White House today isn’t exactly a prize for the American people and the world.
Lincoln may not have been an ideal president but somebody is going to have to work long and hard to equal the record of the guy who’s driving the Resolute desk these days.

@stupid: maybe he wasn’t the sharpest pencil in the box, but the Ghettysburg address is one of the great pieces of literature in American political history. A moron doesn’t write that kind of speech.
A real idiot puts food on his family.