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Originally posted by fastpat
Abraham Lincoln was easily the worst US president ever. The monster initiated a war...
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Lincolns predesessor, James Buchanon made the Civil War unavoidable. His administration was as corrupt as any in history, but his real failures were in refusing to move after South Carolina announced secession from the Union and attacked Fort Sumter, and in supporting both the legality of the pro-slavery constitution of Kansas and the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott class declaring that escaped slaves were not people but property.
He was the guy who in 1861 passed on the mess to the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Blaming Lincoln for the war is revisionist history at it's best.