Food for thought! Abraham Lincoln Today

[Liz Rosenthal]

(07-07-2013 08:31 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  The problem with questions like this is most people transfer their own political viewpoint to Lincoln, both liberal and conservative. It's impossible to know how Lincoln would react to modern-day issues and personally, I don't make an attempt to try. There's no right answer.

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Rob

I agree with Rob. One can cherry pick things from Lincoln's writings and speeches to support almost any preferred political belief. Then, of course, there are all the assertions people like to attribute to Lincoln that he never said - again, to support a preferred political belief. The only thing we can be fairly certain of, regardless of when he lived, is that he would have kept an open mind.