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Abraham Lincoln the Early Adopter
Hugh Pickens writes "On the 200th anniversary of his birth, President Abraham Lincoln's popular image as a log-splitting bumpkin is being re-assessed as historians have discovered that Lincoln had an avid interest in cutting-edge technology and its applications. During the war, Lincoln haunted the telegraph office (which provided the instant-messaging of its day) for the latest news from the front; he encouraged weapons development and even tested some new rifles himself on the White House lawn; and he is the only US president to hold a patent (No. 6469, granted May 22, 1849). It was for a device to lift riverboats over shoals. 'He not only created his own invention but had ideas for other inventions, such as an agricultural steam plow and a naval steam ram, [and] was fascinated by patent cases as an attorney and also by new innovations during the Civil War,' says Jason Emerson, author of Lincoln the Inventor. But Lincoln's greatest contribution to the war effort was his use of the telegraph. When Lincoln took office the White House had no telegraph connection. Lincoln 'developed the modern electronic leadership model, says Tom Wheeler, author of Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph To Win the Civil War. At a time when electricity was a vague scientific concept and sending signals through wires was 'mind boggling,' Lincoln was fascinated by the telegraph and developed it into a political and military tool that allowed him to project himself to the front to monitor and track what was going on. 'If he were alive today, we'd call him an early adopter,' says Wheeler."
Eh...Obama's church taught Black Liberation Theology which is an overtly, and unabashedly, racist ideology against whites.
It was a civil war, of course it would have the most American deaths what with Americans being on both sides of the battle.
The only down side to the civil war is, upon reflection, we probably would be better off without those dead weight southern states.
killing millions. yea. in a civil war. a war. honorably.
beats the hell outta what the shitfaces in the south doing. living a life that is built by the most despicable forms of exploitation known to mankind - slavery.
sorry pal. bud. guy.
i cant bear myself to have any kind of pity for the fuckfaces that fought for the slaving south. well deserved, i say.
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He was probably our greatest American president ever.
Not all would agree, and many think he was a rather sick individual with several emotional issues, ( severe depression one of them ) that irrevocably damaged the country and set it on a path of dilution and eventual dissolution..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
He was a dumb jackass just like Joseph Stalin - keep that union preserved at all costs. Rapes & murder didn't matter. He got many people killed in this country.
And he didn't even like blacks. He didn't want them freed either. Thats what they DON'T teach in public schools because of the propaganda by the government.
He was a pure murdering phony with aggrandizing historians helping his legacy.