[First sent to some friends of mine -- comments, insight, feedback welcome, I'll read it in the morn..]
Since Obama explicitly calls Lincoln his role model so often, after going through some disappointments and ups and downs since election day with Obama's decisions (some of which I have commented about on this site, and having certainly read many others' righteously angry diaries about), I figured it would be useful to learn a little more directly about the original Pres Obama venerates so, and get some perspective that way.
And oh boy, did I ever get some -- came to see Obama and our time from so many different angles that I never would have, without the historical lesson.
So maybe this condensed version will also be useful for other Kossacks generally fighting in the trenches, and who can't always take time to read a long book about it (I know some of this has been covered in some other diaries the last few weeks and months, but these are the things I learned, and still may offer some insight to some).
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