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HerbS · 06-26-2013, 07:11 AM

Lincoln was GREAT because had the"People Person"skills.He had what I would tell every"Student Teacher"-you have to have the 3F's-Fair-Firm,and Friendly!

Matt Macoubrie · 06-26-2013, 11:46 AM

I think that like Lincoln so much because he came from little but came out triumphant. Even though he did some questionable things in office, all of that is overshadowed by his death. In addition I think there is an important repoint tools when considering he legacy of other great presidents or figures within history! (Not saying anything against Obama lovers) but another reason why we like Lincoln so much is because he actually related to the people. He come not from an esteemed family on the upper east side but from Harding county Kentucky. Unlike majority of our presidents and even some politicians, Lincoln worked hard mentally and physically to get where ended up. A surveyor, mill worker, and a lawyer .... I can't think of another president tht related to the commoner as well as he did! Plus I've got to like the guy .... I live in the city that was named after him.... And I don find any coincidences that it is the capital of "The Good Life"

JMadonna · 06-30-2013, 06:56 AM

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
- -- Abraham Lincoln

Saw that quote today and thought 'he really understood himself'. Too many today stand on one side or the other, Lincoln was willing to consider the other side and then make up his mind.

LincolnToddFan · (This post was last modified: 04-05-2014 02:32 AM by LincolnToddFan.)

He had the hide of a rhino...he must have, to have been able to withstand the almost constant vicious attacks on his character. He was under almost an inhuman amount of pressure from the time he took the oath of office as President, until he sat down in that rocker at Ford's Theater on the night of April 14th, 1865. Yet he never became self-pitying like Lyndon Johnson. He never resorted to a vindictive, paranoid "enemies list" a la Richard Nixon. During the fierce storm he remained what he had been all his life...generous, tough, dreamy, pragmatic, visionary.

Deep inside, he must have realized that he was the intellectual superior of everyone around him, yet he was never arrogant or condescending to "lesser" men. He took and accepted everyone as he found them.

His iron will is part of his legend, but so is his tender heartedness. The same man who could order hundreds of thousands of young men to their deaths in battle could also weep and grieve for them, and be haunted by their ghosts in his dreams. He would contrive to issue pardons to deserters who had been condemned to the firing squad.

How many "tyrants" cuddle kittens on their lap, and fret about them being hungry and lonely in the midst of orchestrating an army to victory during a bloody, divisive civil war?

Humility, dazzling intellect,political brilliance, toughness, magnanimity, pathos, humor, almost freakish physical strength combined with the gentleness of a child, flawed and overwhelmingly human...who else can we think of in American political life who embodied all those qualities in one person?

If AL isn't great, I don't know who is.

LincolnMan · 04-10-2014, 04:01 PM

LincolnToddfan: your response is so good that I just read it three times. I wish it was posted on my Lincoln blog!

LincolnToddFan · 04-10-2014, 08:18 PM

Hi Bill, you are very kind. I appreciate it. Please feel free to post my response at your blog if you like, I'd be flattered.

I'd like to check out your blog sometime soon. Could you send me the link?

LincolnMan · 04-10-2014, 08:23 PM

(04-10-2014 08:18 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote: Hi Bill, you are very kind. I appreciate it. Please feel free to post my response at your blog if you like, I'd be flattered.

I'd like to check out your blog sometime soon. Could you send me the link?

Thank you! My blog site is: AbesBlogCabin.org

LincolnToddFan · 04-10-2014, 09:17 PM

Ooooh...thanks, will definitely check it out. I can never have enough.. AbeAddict that I am!

LincolnMan · 04-14-2014, 05:17 AM

Tom Bogar has a column posted today entitled: "Lincoln's Character" at Townhall.com
Congratulations Tom!

LincolnMan · 04-14-2014, 09:10 AM

Roger: I'm at work- can you post a link to the article?

RJNorton · 04-14-2014, 09:15 AM

Many thanks for your post, Bill. The article is here. Kudos, Tom!

Also, I second Bill regarding Toia's post. Toia, that is extremely well-written. Kudos!

LincolnToddFan · (This post was last modified: 04-14-2014 09:35 PM by LincolnToddFan.)

Thanks much Roger, and thanks for posting the link so that I could read Tom's column. It was perfectly stated and I can't find one word to disagree with...but as usual the commentary that follows is a sideshow all in of itself! Undecided

Matt Macoubrie · 04-15-2014, 08:34 AM

Lincoln was great because he understood what it meant to be "united" as one. We were a fledgeling nation but it took one man and his cabinet, along with trust steer us where we are today. I think we as Americans get caught up in the George Washington's and Richard Obama's of our history, but we forget those very important ones in between that guided us through tough times. Taking on a Civil War is very difficult, and not everyone has the knowledge and perseverance that Lincoln had to get through it. Look at the Russian Civil War and what came out of that and tell yourself, were Lincoln and his cabinet better or worse than the Russian legislature back then. Besides, I think personally that Lincoln had morals . . . something that not all leaders posses.

Craig Hipkins · 04-18-2014, 07:56 AM

(04-15-2014 08:34 AM)Matt Macoubrie Wrote: Lincoln was great because he understood what it meant to be "united" as one. We were a fledgeling nation but it took one man and his cabinet, along with trust steer us where we are today. I think we as Americans get caught up in the George Washington's and Richard Obama's of our history, but we forget those very important ones in between that guided us through tough times. Taking on a Civil War is very difficult, and not everyone has the knowledge and perseverance that Lincoln had to get through it. Look at the Russian Civil War and what came out of that and tell yourself, were Lincoln and his cabinet better or worse than the Russian legislature back then. Besides, I think personally that Lincoln had morals . . . something that not all leaders posses.

I think you hit the nail on the head Matt! Today's leaders seem to be totally self absorbed and don't possess the moral fiber that people like Lincoln had. Lincoln was not perfect. He had his flaws just like everyone else, but I believe that he at least had a genuine sympathy and love for people. I think that this can best be seen with his many pardons to soldiers during the Civil War which other leaders would have been hesitant to meddle with.

Craig