At the risk of drawing yet more "hostility"...

Lincoln was a great president.

We need honest men in office.

We get Reagans, Bushes, and Slick Willy (a fairly good president when he has his pants up). We get what we vote for.

The last good President we had was Mr. Carter...a good, honest and decent-minded man. He made the military-industrial complex VERY nervous, due to his unflagging honesty.

The Civil War had NOTHING to do with slavery...it was a war of economics. Slavery was dying out due to the invention of the cotton gin, which made slavery less and less economically feasible.

Slavery is a bad thing. Ignorance is worse. Blacks were not the only race ever enslaved...there was, in fact, a period when blacks owned whites (In N. Africa)...there were several instances when freed blacks owned other blacks in America...BTW, whites never went to Africa to catch slaves, they BOUGHT them from other Africans and Arabs...Slavery continues in Africa to this day.

None of this has ANYTHING to do with a very good song that HW Jr. sang.