I.  Introduction

The most prestigious Legacy Media Newspaper could write a very persuasive two-theme critique of the most Reckless and Crooked Republican POTUS in history simply by listing the chronological sequence of events of his presidency and secondly ridiculing the simplistic foolishness of his most famous speech.

  II.  History: Part I: Verbalized Political Disputes

1. 1. He was called a war-monger continually by Democrats.
   2. Democrat Party politicians in opposition constantly demanded that he MAKE PEACE by compromise with the enemy.
   3. He connivingly expanded the war only after the mid-term elections.
   4. He allegedly curtailed what Democrats describe as basic constitutional rights.
   5. He sent armed federal personnel who shot to death ‘mostly peaceful protestors and demonstrators’ after which his ‘war-mongering’ expanded significantly.

III.  A Few Speech Critique Factors

1. 1. His is so stupid that he speaks as if the United States Constitution began in 1776 instead of 1789 with 9 of the 13 states having ratified the Bill of Rights and with the election of George Washington as President. What a dope!
   2. He treats the state governments as if they are 100% subservient to the federal government no matter what the Constitution says.
   3. He treats the use of the US military as his unbridled personal privilege.
   4. He pretends that he has a direct line to the Almighty God WHO directs his actions and speech.
   5. He talks about ‘Social Equality’ and Democratic Patriotism as if he were Pericles the Great reincarnated.
   6. His arrogance is without limit.

 IV.  The Famous Speech (271 words)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.  Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

   V.  History: Part II:  Major Chronologically Sequenced Events

1. 1. The War begins almost immediately as he takes office by the ‘Secession’ of southern slave states to maintain their ‘states rights’ (to continue slavery no matter what the elected Republican President prefers).

[What is the real difference between ‘Secession’ states and ‘Sanctuary’ states?]

1. 2. The first two years of the Civil War were relatively minor compared to the last part.
   3. In March 1863, the unprecedented Conscription Law was passed by his Republican Congress after the mid-term election.
   4. The NYC Anti-Draft Riots saw organized Insurrectionists kill many random Blacks and the defending police officers by ‘lynchings.’ The police back then had batons – but not firearms.
   5. The Battle of Gettysburg (where the Speech was subsequently delivered) caused over 52,000 deaths between July 1-3 1863. (3,000 to 4,000 more died in the invading Confederate Army.)
   6. Later in July troops freed up after the Battle of Gettysburg and Confederate withdrawal from Pennsylvania were finally sent to NYC by railroad and ended the Draft Riots by shooting to death as many Insurrectional Rioters as required in order to stop the Insurrection. (The very entertaining movie “Gangs of New York” implies that Union warships shelling the rioters ended the riot.  That was news to me.)
   7. In the period leading up to the 1864 election William Tecumseh Sherman’s army finally took the major armament-producing city of Atlanta, Georgia even before his devastating March to the Sea.
   8. The Democrat party candidate, (by then, the former) General George McClellan, running on a ‘Peace’ by compromise platform was defeated by Lincoln’s reelection.
   9. With Sherman’s army marching north towards Richmond, where U.S. Grant had the Confederate Army under siege, Robert E. Lee (in attempting to save his army) withdrew to a courthouse at Appomattox, Virginia where he surrendered.