It should have been a clue . . . .

That O's favorite president was Lincoln.

Lincoln, who unconstitutionally fought and won a war of aggression and conquest against the Confederate States of America for the purposes of (a) forcing them back into a federation to which they did not want to belong and (b) overthrowing slavery forever in those states and all states within the Union.

Lincoln, who usurped the congressional power to suspend habeas corpus and abused it to punish, silence, imprison, or drive out of the country those who opposed him as regards either or both of (a) and (b).

Lincoln, who ignored the First Amendment guarantees of free speech and freedom of the press for the same purposes.

Lincoln, who, when the volunteers stopped coming, adopted a draft to force tens of thousands of men to go fight his war of conquest, a war that had not the least thing in the world to do with defending them, their liberty, or their homeland.

Praise him or damn him, that is what Father Abraham did.

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Of course, both parties are war parties, now, and it will be a rare liberal or a rare conservative who will espouse the view, common among America's greater leaders before the Civil War, that a draft is both unconstitutional and tyrannical.

And the same is true regarding the once equally common conviction that if you cannot get volunteers to fight your war then perhaps you ought not to be fighting it.

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It is no surprise O admires a president who did so much unlawfully to achieve what O, no doubt, views as results so morally important as to morally justify his illegalities and the slaughter he put the country through to achieve those results.