JUST got home from seeing "LINCOLN". Trust me. SEE IT. Here is why:

[RBInMaine]

61. Study your history. TODAY he would be a DEMOCRAT. The ideologies of the parties have reversed over

time. Yes, he did invoke some extraordinary wartime presidential powers, but he had an extraordinary crisis to manage. And he did not initiate the war. Indeed, he implored the South not to choose secession. Going in he was for halting the expansion of slavery and opposed it entirely on principle which in fact sparked secession. He fought hard for the 13th Amendment as shown in the movie. He also built the transcontinental railroad, the transcontinental telegraph lines, and initiated the land grant university system. He had a LIBERAL plan for reconstruction in opposition to that of the Radical Republicans of the time who really wanted to vanquish the South. Your comparison to Bush is deeply flawed and a very poor reading of the historical record.