The Rail-Splitter    
    
  Okay. Okay!! We'll go along with impeachment, on one condition and one condition only: BRING BACK HONEST ABE. 

   Lincoln then and Trump today share a drive to succeed, care for the troops, political detractors, a divided nation and their need to leave the Oval Office to get things done. As for LEADERSHIP, there is little to compare.

   Leadership: it's difficult, no set rules.

   Lincoln believed in honesty and that integrity was self evident. He was patient, tirelessly nudging Gen. McClellan - a great organizer - to actually go fight.

   He was compassionate, caring for others, and for the rights of individuals. He didn't intimidate others with fear. Affable. Complementary. Ethical. Was easily mistaken as weak and controllable.

   Our 16th president sought to know his subordinates, and forged alliances, keeping human nature in mind. He wanted to understand motives, to be lenient, even with the enemy. 

   His priority was preserving the Union, nothing less. He sought no fame for himself. Lincoln did not coerce subordinates, which is not leadership but tyranny. 

   He believed in the Golden Rule, the pursuit of liberty and equality. Nothing good comes from vengeance or spite.  

   There is no record of him calling Gen. Lee or Jefferson Davis a "nut job."   

   Abe Lincoln:
   "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."

   He's up there somewhere, folks. God willing, he still has a second term to finish.                                          😔

        Jimmy