Yikes! If I had known this song was going to bring up so much political debating, I wouldn't have posted it. It's just a song folks! I think you're all reading too much into it. The overall story is: we live in a tough and unfair society. Perhaps if we had someone as wise, compasionate, and caring as Abraham Lincoln, we could solve some of these problems. I don't think the it's calling on Mr.Lincoln to come and kill all offenders and institute martial law--it's more of a plea that Mr.Lincoln would know how to come up with a way to fix things to be fair to EVERYONE. He's not blaming any one racial group for prison overcrowding--he's saying something else has do be done with criminals beside packing them into prisons and killing them off. Also, if the world valued honesty and the truth as Lincoln did, maybe we wouldn't be putting away so many innocent people. And just as Lincoln freed the slaves, he would free everyone, regardless of race, color, heritage, religion, or gender--and make a country that would be fair and work for it's people. Lincoln would calmy fight for the freedom of his people, helping the innocent, aided the wrong & offended, being just toward offenders AND understanding. He would care about each person, guilty or innocent, and try to help them, not put them away of electrocute them. When was the last time we had a president we all loved, and knew would protect us, no matter the circumstance? Someone we could trust to help us even if we were guilty. A guilty person is not always an evil bloodthirsty demon. EVERYONE has rights, and they should ALL be upheld. Mr. Lincoln was not a racist, or a Nazi, or a KKK member. He did not hate. He loved. That is what we need today, in this country--someone who loves people more than money or power or politics. Maybe if we had a few more "backwoods lawyers" we wouldn't have people killing each other because they'd love their fellow man too much. No matter what the color.

--Mbo