"Dan Luke" wrote in message
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My choice for a "best" leader would be Abe Lincoln, who lead his country
through a war and a difficult moral struggle with honesty and dignity --
and he wasn't bad in the gift of gab department, either.


Lincoln is revered for preserving the Union. But he didn't take an oath to
preserve the union, he took an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the
Constitution of the United States." In preserving the Union he trampled the
Constitution.