what does this story about Lincoln's dream tell us about the man?

Question

Lincoln liked to tell stories. One story he told was about a dream. he dreamed that he was sith a group of ordinary people. one of them said about the president,"he's a common looking man." lincoln heard this remark.
he looked at the people in the group and answered, " common looking people are the best in the world that is the reason the lord makes so many of them."

i think common looking means citizens right ?
and could you anwser that question please.. thanks

Answer 1

I think common looking man meant ordinary and not "lordly" or "regal" or prominent. Lincoln was one of the few presidents without a true high school education. I believe he earned a GED and was a self-taught lawyer from the West. He was thought inferior by most of the people he had selected to work for him and some actually hated him and treated him poorly, namely Seward. Later, they recognized his greatness of spirit and his good qualities, but he had many bad ones. He had written a law during the war that trounced on people's rights as a way of protecting the union. Many great presidents had done the same, and some presidents not so great, but then history may vindicate some we know. Some are heralded and I cannot see why.

Answer 2

Sounds like it to me