Wasn't trying to call your hand, just confused. No problem, I've done worse.

You never know how far to trust what you find on the internet, but here are some quotes that I've seen something like many years ago in the real world.

Filthy story teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.
- Harpers magazine, on Abraham Lincoln

Nothing more than a well meaning baboon.
- General McCellan, on Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln as a Monkey, holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln was a very unpopular man in his time.