Compared to who,Stalin? Did you know the bleep threatened to send US Marshals to the Supreme Court and have them locked away in a military prison for the duration of the war if they ruled he didn't have the authority to declare war on the south because the union was a voluntary union,and each state that formed it insisted they have the right to withdraw from it if it became a tyranny." Yet here was that asshat,threatening to lock up the US Supreme Court if they disagreed with him.
@sneakypete I didn't know that, no. But I think the man has to be given credit for keeping the Union together.
Look, I'm a lifelong born and raised Southerner, and I used to get pinged to those TOS threads where the Civil War was fought over and over again. I didn't have much input to give, other than to smack down the occasional moron who tried to blather about Northern superiority. That's what gets me going...not reasons why the South should have won. I can love the South with all my heart, while still recognizing that slavery was wrong, and so was splitting the Union. It was only a hundred years before that men gave their blood to birth it, after all.
I realize that's heresy to a segment of Southerners, but that's my take on it.
But in my personal opinion, no president can hold a candle to George Washington, and that includes Lincoln.