Thoughts on President 

Abraham Lincoln,

and Democrat Presidential 

Nominee 

Barack Obama~

  If it was possible, that someone, somewhere, somehow, got to go back into time and whisper in President Abraham Lincoln's ear the name Barack Obama,  and showed him a photograph of the first black Presidential nominee, would Abraham Lincoln have wept? Likely he would have stared at that photo for a long, long while, recalling the anguish he saw in his lifetime, the anger of the civil war, the history of slavery in America and the men who fought to abolish it. It would have struck Abraham in the heart with a sense of promise like he may have never known before. 

  But then, perhaps like in the movie Men in Black, a flash of a hand held object erased ol' Abe's memory of the event, and all that was left was the reality of a divided America in turmoil over the issue of slavery. 

  Of course, in the year of 2008, there are things I cannot agree with Barack Obama. Abortion takes center stage. I cannot understand how a Christian, as he says he is, cannot read the pertinent  passages in scripture and understand the sanctity of unborn life. It seems to fall upon the deaf ears of Speaker Pelosi as well. What vital enzyme are they missing in their logic? Even the Roman Catholic archbishop came out and told Pelosi she was wrong. 

  I would certainly hope for the best for Barack Obama. God has a way of engulfing seemingly simple men with a seemingly superior passion of strong principals and drive, tho broken human that man in general may be. Certainly Barack Obama exudes promise, a sense of clarity, purpose and energy, tho all the reasons behind it may be hard to explain.  Lincoln, on the other hand, would look mostly on promise, of promise achieved, and a sense that America has grown tall in maturing as a nation.