Lessons From the Land of Lincoln and Obama

I would like Mr. Patel- the so-called "moderate", educated American Muslim to discuss the plight of non-Muslims in 57 intolerant Islamic nations?

And how does he explain the fact that there are no significant number of minorities in these Islamic nations and why do Muslims once in majority call themselves an Islamic republic to insult the non-Muslim population?

Hardly anyone in the United States, including in the Republican party, during the Civil War believed in racial equality. So to criticize Lincoln for not being a believer in racial equality is unfair, in the context of the 19th century CE.

Before 1861 only a very small minority of northerners advocated the abolition of slavery. Had there been no American civil war, slavery probably would have continued for at least until well into the 20th century CE. Nobody contends Lincoln was perfect, so the notion of myths surrounding him and his life has little, if any credence.

Abraham Lincoln, in his personal life, the terrible personal tragedies he endured, his occasional bouts with depression, fatalism show his greatness as a human being, both apart from and including his role as president. Any comparisons between Lincoln and Obama, or any other president, are hardly worthwhile. Lincoln had to deal with a crisis, the Civil War, greater than any other president.

Contemporaies often consider the problems and crises of their era to be among the most challenging in the nation's history. Yet there were numerous recessions and depressions, that were worse than modern recessions since 1940. The standard of living of the vast majority of people was quite low, with very long working hours for rural and urban workers, before the 1940's.

Well, if I should play your game that Lincoln was "just a man", then he was a man much despised, at the time of his death and the nation he led was fractious prone, witness the copperheads in the North, the South in the South. When he was elected president a southern newspaper claimed the states desolved. I was at Arlington House some time ago and a person in full Confederate regailia was showing people the sites-kept calling the Lincoln Memorial the Imposter Memorial. Lincoln did save us, as did Washinton, Roosevelt and Reagan and now Obama. Yes you can argue only God can save us but then God-if you believe that stuff-isn't going to come down from Heaven and tell Obama and the Republicans and Democrats"step aside the Almighty will fix the economic situation." We,I don't deify Obama, we don't deify the President, we mere mortals just made the Presidency, Congress and the Judiciary to run things. The fact that gods come out of those institutions like Lincoln nemisis Stephen Douglas-the Little Giant, is just a byproduct, of whom they represent, like Strom Thurmond,John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster. but their forces like leader of the abolitionist movement or the plantation system, are great. As President Kennedy once said, "here on earth, God's work must truely be our own."

If Lincoln, a white president, had to go to WAR to unify the country, what are expectations of a black president, attempting to do the same?

The deification of Lincoln only proceeded after his death. Deification of a sitting president is an unusual burden to lay upon someone because, he, like all of us, has feet of clay. He is bound to disappoint and once a flaw is found in a god, his tumble can be mighty hard.

The lesson for all of us is that they are us. We must all own our government whether the person we voted for holds the office or his opponent.

Mr. Patel noted: "Lincoln didn't save us; Obama can't either."

And neither will the warmongering, womanizing long-dead Arab named Mahound!!!