Poor Abe Lincoln.Our first shot president, some people thought he was Jewish because he was shot in the temple

Question

What can you say about Abe Lincoln.

Answer 1

"Shot in the temple..." good one! So people don't know that he was in Ford's Theatre watching a play called "My American Cousin" when he was shot in the back of the head by Booth and not in a Jewish synagog? Amazing.

What I can say about Lincoln goes against the "mainstream" opinion of him. I do NOT consider him the "Great Emancipator," and think that 99% of the adoration and adulation heaped on him is solely because Booth killed him. Had he survived and served out his second term, I think the US would be a drastically different place - and for the better, by the way - but I don't think he would have been adored like he is now. That's what comes with martyrdom.

Some things that people don't know about Lincoln:

His opinion of the ***** was just as low as everyone else's. He stated that he didn't think that the ***** would ever be "equal" to the white man physically, mentally, or socially, and he was NOT the abolitionist that people think he was. His opinion of slavery was "hands off" until he absolutely had to touch it in order to swing public opinion of the conduct of the war back on his side. He freed the slaves, sure, but he did it solely for political reasons, not because he thought it was wrong or the "right thing to do."

He also violated the US Constitution by suspending the writ of habeus corpus without the approval of Congress. This allowed the authorities to arrest and imprison anyone who spoke out against the Northern war efforts without a hearing or a warrant, and enabled them to keep them in prison for as long as they wanted. More than 300 people were arrested and imprisoned, most of them editors and publishers of newspapers critical of the Lincoln administration and the conduct of the war. The editors and publishers would be arrested and confined, kept in prison while their newspaper offices were destroyed and burned, and then released. The message was clear enough. Lincoln was censured by Congress after the war was over, but by then he was dead and it didn't really matter.

Was he a good president? Absolutely. He had the toughest job facing him of any president in our history, and I think he did as good a job as anyone could have, maybe even better. I wish he had not been assassinated because under his guidance, Reconstruction would not have been the horrific ordeal for the South that it was. Race relations definitely would have been better, and a lot of the hard feelings that are still prevalent in our country today wouldn't be here.

Was he the "Great Emancipator" and larger-than-life president that people want to believe?

I don't think so.

Answer 2

Born in 1809 in a log cabin in Kentucky
Mother dies when he was young
Passed the bar exam
Served in the US House from Illinois as a Whig
Served in the Blackhawk war of 1832
Known as a " railsplitter"
Joined the Republican party in 1854
Lost US Senate race to Stephen A. Douglas in 1858 but receive attention from his party over his views on slavery and
popular sovereignity.
Received Republican nomination in 1860 in an upset over the favorite William Seward of New York
Won the 1860 Presidential Election over Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell with only 39.8% of the popular vote
Asked for 75000 volunteers after Fort Sumter was attacked and seized by the Confederates
Civil War engulfs the entire Presidency
Probably suffered from manic depression.
Two boys died while in office
Emancipation Proclamation issued saying all slaves are free in states that are in rebellion
Delivers greatest 3 minutre speech ever on November 19.1863 at Gettysburg
Reelected President in 1864 over former general in charge of the Army of the Potomac, George McClellan rather easily
Had no religious affiliaton but was seen in the Episcopal church .
Desired a 10% Reconstruction plan in which any state who was in rebellion could muster 10% suppport for the Union they would qualify for reentry
Shot in the back of the head on Good Friday April 14,1865 by John Wilkes B00th at approximately 10:20 pm
Dies on April 15, 1865 at 7:22 am and belongs to the ages

Answer 3

He was shot in the back of the head, not the temple. Would have been interesting to have been around during his day to get the local opinion of him.Believe it or not, he really did sleep in my town ( the building still exists, Lincoln Nursing home) on his way to one of his debates with Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois.

Answer 4

Nice one - not heard that before.

Sadly I think your little quip has gone miles over the head of everyone else so far.