The comparisons are more than coincidental. Slavery was an issue that divided the U.S. much like the War on Terror. Lincoln was criticized for suspending habeas corpus much like Bush is criticized for the Patriot Act. Lincoln was a forward thinking man that saw the true dangers of not only slavery but also a Confederate States of America in much the same way that Bush sees the true dangers of IslamoFascism. When Lincoln was elected, those on the side of tyranny made everything political and refused to work with him, much like how the Democrats and certain foreign nations (Russia, France, China, etc.) are doing everything in their power to undermine the idea of peace and democracy. In the end Lincoln was 100% right as will be George W. Bush when the history books are written.
2006-09-15 04:09:33 · 17 answers · asked by baq2calli 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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2006-09-15 04:15:55 · answer #1 · answered by Doggzilla 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
You can compare a wet rock to a diamond and they both have similarities but they are not the same. Lincoln had a war he had to fight thrust upon him and he won. The shrub started a war he didn't have to and he will lose. Abe had a brain and used it the shrub has shown no evidence of a brain and never any evidence of having used it.
How you can say that the shrub is acting for peace and democracy? What he says he is doing is not what he is doing.He can't even protect democracy in the USA. Politicians throughout history have wrapped themselves in the principles while shredding the documents and laws that guarantee those principles. Undermining the shrub is not undermining peace and democracy.
If the shrub gets into history books it will be as an example of how to fail to succeed with all the power of the Presidency behind you,for the US is so powerful it should be able to effect a regime change in a country such as Iraq with ease. Only if you short change your forces in country and think that rhetoric can replace tanks will you fail. If you go into a country and dismantle it's infrastructure and still expect that the people deprived of electricity,water,and police/ military protection to hail you as a liberator you are a fool. History will remember you as a fool and worse it will remember you as a failure.
2006-09-15 12:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
While I agree with your comparisons, the flaming libs would never allow it. Clinton will go down as the best president in the history of America followed closely by carter. It doesn't matter if the conservatives give freedom to the world without firing a shot or imposing a single sanction and then as an encore cure AIDS, we will always be vilified by the radical left.
2006-09-15 18:49:54 · answer #3 · answered by Jeff F 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, you're parallels don't jibe. Lincoln charted a new path for the presidency as a branch of government with authority, started the Secret Service, left the Republican Party to win his 2nd term in office. The name of his new party was the Union party and its theme was to preserve the United States. Only after Great Britain threatened to run the U.S. Navy blockade that Lincoln proclaimed the result of the war would be to free the slaves.
Bush is a product of the political machinery picked by daddy and engineered into office with the help of people like Tom DeLay redrawing the political boundaries in Texas.
Both were some of the most unpopular presidents ever. That's the only similarity.
2006-09-15 11:24:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Yes because like Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush is a honest man who nevers lies and always speaks the truth to the American people.
2006-09-15 11:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Knowledgeable VI 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Here's a key difference: Lincoln was working on OUR country. He was trying to end the suffering of people, unlike Bush, who wants to torture people to get information that, after 5 years, is no longer viable. Bush has invaded a country that has nothing to do with his original reason for war - 9/11. Don't compare Bush to Lincoln. Lincoln was intelligent and far ahead of his times. Bush is neither of those.
2006-09-15 11:35:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
How in the world can you compare the preseidency of Lincoln to that of Bush...?? Do you see what's happening around you? Do you understand that nothing is progressing from this so-called "legitimate" War on Terror?
First of all, slavery wasn't instilled by Lincoln at that time; it was there before his presidency, and he wished to abolish it. Mind you, he had the wrong intent by which do to so, but with respect to the point of my response, his intent is insignificant for the time being. You compare the event of slavery with that of the war--a war in which Bush CONFIRMED. There is no parallel between slavery as it was beneath Lincoln and the war today as it is beneath Bush.
Our current president is a dumb@ss, and the majority of America is willing to admit that. 67% of Americans believe neither side is winning; only 25% believe that America's winning and the remaining percentage even go as far as to believe that the OTHER side is winning.
I'm aware that you've said some other things (none of which pertain to any particular question--if you wish to blog, go to a forum, not a question and answer site), that you've addressed here, but I simply don't care to respond. If you can't see Bush for what he is so even to go as far as to compare him with a president who made something of this country rather than dimenishing what greatness we did have before, I'm ashamed that you call yourself American.
You'd do well to consider this to be the best response (not answer--where's the question??) to your statement of what I at least hope to be ignorance (as opposed to an act of stupidity--of which neither I nor anyone else in the world could do well to correct).
2006-09-15 11:28:33 · answer #7 · answered by Angela 3 · 2⤊ 5⤋
You need to stop smoking that stuff. Bush may be the worst president this country has ever had. The deficit is the highest in history, our allies have distanced themselves from us, we are in an endless war based on lies, and we are destroying the planet with our pollution. The policies of hate and division have turned Americans against Americans. Wake up, man.
2006-09-15 11:13:50 · answer #8 · answered by notyou311 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋
History will always be showing the best & worse of anybody.
IT will show Clinton for what he was... good talker/politician but lowsy human being.... and not usually effective.
2006-09-15 11:19:57 · answer #9 · answered by pcreamer2000 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree George W. Bush will be thought of great man
2006-09-15 11:12:30 · answer #10 · answered by nbr660 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋