Obama and Lincoln Not a Good Combination

As Lew Rockwell notes, not all lefties are on board the Obama change train. He quotes author Kirkpatrick Sale, who wrote the following:

Let's just hold it a bit on this Lincoln thing. If Barack Obama wants to lead the nation as Lincoln did, we're in for a lot of trouble.

The man whose Bible he took the oath on, whose memory he regularly invokes, presided over the creation of what can only be called a nascent fascist government led by a party of industrial capitalism that ran roughshod over constitution and custom, encouraged a form of bloody warfare that defied all civilized practice to date, and was the cause of untold misery, violence, and destruction for the next half-century or more. He was the ultimate creator of an empire that, thanks to military might in service to corporate interests, spread across the American continent, not just north to south but eventually coast to coast, and would ultimately go on to impose itself worldwide.

Frankly, I think Sale is sugar-coating Lincoln's legacy just a bit.