[1967 R50/2]

Best President:

Lincoln was the BEST president this country ever had bar none. He was pure will. I have lived down south and heard all the Civili War apologist arguements, but they carry little weight.

If Lincoln had lived, the south would have been rebuilt properly. It was his greatest dream to see the country re-united. But Booth put an end to that. Even Lee lamented the assasination. It was a pity, but his Veep, Johnson had no political clout to carry out plans for reconstuction, whatsoever.

It was a measure of Lincoln's character that Lee, Davis, and the other southern leaders were allowed to live after the war. In any other time, they would have been hung as traitors. That's the fact. But Lincoln saw it was better that they be treated as wayward brothers and be given mild, if any punishment.

As far as "fuking up the constitution" I fail to see how adding the 13th amendment that prohibited owning other men as property is "fuking up the constitution". That's Lincoln's legacy if not his actual act.

The "150 years of devisiveness" that you talk about can hardly be laid at Lincoln's feet. He DID NOT secede from the Union. THAT is devisive. On the contrary, he sought to UNITE the country. Upon the conclusion of the war he wanted to rebuild and spiritually re-unite the country in the worst way. THAT is not devisive.

The worst President:

JFK. The man slept with an East German spy as well as a Mafia Don's girlfriend, almost got us in a nuclear exchange, involved us in Vietnam and left the Cuban's out to dry at the Bay of Pigs. In retrospect I am suprised things turned out as well as they did.