Marc Malone
2009-07-10 11:46:03
#21 Westwright – You are right. See, Lincoln was a moderate Republican. Only when he became more Classical Liberal (today’s Conservative) did the slaves get freed. This happened when the North was on the verge of losing the war (not on the battlefield, but in public opinion).
As for being a tyrant, he jailed dissidents. This is actually allowed under the Constitution, the suspension of habeus corpus during wartime. He jailed the poisonous press, and even a politician or two. FDR did the same kind of thing. He imprisoned the Japanese, and censored all press. The nonsense the press did during the Iraq war would never have been tolerated in the old days. But Bush=Hitler. Riiiight.
