Question for historians:given that Barack Obama holds Abraham Lincoln in such hi

Question: Question for historians:given that Barack Obama holds Abraham Lincoln in such high esteem!?

What would Abraham Lincoln thought about Barack Obama's presidential campaign!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I think that he would be supportive of a candidate who attempts to protect national security, even at the cost of a bargaining with nations that don't share your ideology; he would've been willing to accept the Confederates back into the union, even with their backwards ways, if it would end the war and make his country better!.

Oh wait!. You want a race-related response!.

I think of Lincoln as a progressive abolitionist as opposed to an immediate abolitionist; though he was only forced to free blacks by the war, he was, after all, running on the Republican ticket, one built around freedom for all!. Therefore his seeming ambiguity on the topic of equality would've been more of a desire to introduce blacks into American society gradually, rather than dumping them into mainstream society immediately, where they would inevitably sink to the bottom (which they arguably did)!.

Therefore I think that Lincoln would've been proud that African-Americans have recovered from slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, etc!., to eventually take the highest post in the land!. I think that the process that happened, of blacks going from slave to lower class to middle class, and, finally, upper class society, while going from subaltern to subculture to ethnicity to mainstream populace and eventual hybridization, is very much what Lincoln would've wanted, though I think he would've wanted the whole process to progress twice as fast!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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