Trump and Lincoln: Shockingly Similar

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  1. tsuke

    tsuke Well-Known Member

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    I actually believe the Merryman case was wrong. Congress was not in session and war was about to break out. If there is any time to grant the executive latitude that was it. Of course the judge was a partisan democrat so he didnt.
     
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    tsuke Well-Known Member

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    The paths their presidencies are going on is actually very similar as I pointed out.
     
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    WOW.
    There must be some powerful LSD or such out there..
    Thoughts that delusional cannot arise without mind-altering substances...
     
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    Steady Pie Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have to disagree with your analysis. Lincoln was, for all intents and purposes, a dictator. He tore the country apart rather than let the South go peacefully. He passed the first income tax. He suspended the constitution and habeas corpus. He accelerates government growth as a percentage of the economy like has never been seen before anywhere on the planet (with the possible exception of Bismarck's Germany).

    He was a tyrant and forever banished any possibility of a return to pre-constitutional federalism. Republicans would do well to distance themselves from him.
     
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    I disagree with the comparison.. I thought I'd choke last week when Trump compared himself to Andrew Jackson.
     
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    I always thought comparing obama to Carter was an insult to Carter.
     
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    Yeah, only their mother can tell them apart.

    :roll:

    I'll bet next time there will be post who shall compare Trump to the Christ - and where Trump appears indeed bigger than Jesus.
     
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    I liked and respected both men for different reasons.
     

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