Extra Credit Questions

[Rob Wick]

Quote:Please try to keep your explanation short.

That's rich coming from someone who can spout 15,000 words and not say anything.

Given that Sarah Lincoln Grigsby died in 1828, I don't know that I would suggest that Sarah Bush Johnston had much to do with her life.

As for the remainder of your comment, you obviously realized that you overstated the case because saying "explain how Abraham and his sister would have moved forward from their then-current situation and into the rewarding future that Lincoln's new step-mother provided" is a far cry from your original point that but for Sarah Bush Johnston, Abraham would have never been president.

No one can question that Thomas' new wife changed the equation for how the Lincolns lived after Nancy's death, but the original absurdity that you posted is, again, a far cry from this.

As for reading Burlingame, or any other Lincoln biographer for that matter, unlike you, I don't hold any author (even ones I admire) as infallible. When I quote from an author, it is to buttress my point. Try and understand that part, David. MY POINT! I think at this stage of my life, I know as much about Lincoln as any of them ever will.

Short enough for you?

Best
Rob