Given the nationalist agitprop that passes for American education, it’s a miracle that a third of respondents to this poll say Lincoln was wrong to have used force against his own people. In the comment section, I wrote: “I love the president-worship in which Americans have been trained to engage: their ‘great presidents’ are always brilliant, and 620,000 deaths is glorious, not a failure of statesmanship. The rest of the world finds this hilarious, by the way. “Yes, Ron Paul could have given the rehearsed Romney answer you would all have preferred, but I for one prefer a non-plastic, non-mannikin. … Continue reading AOL on Lincoln and Ron Paul