[thecavemaster]

Socialists seem quite desperate to claim Lincoln as one of their own. Lincoln's contemporary biographers who forcefully claimed that the quote you cited was fraudulent were better placed to know the truth than you are and they had no motive to claim Lincoln as one sympathetic to the socialist creed. Alas, you have not found the successful socialist that you seek in Abraham Lincoln. I again suggest that you look elsewhere to validate your political beliefs.

May I suggest that I do not view Abraham Lincoln a socialist, nor anyone else, simply because they distrust conglomorated money and corporate power? And, frankly, I don't think you do either. I stand by the quote, your henpecking notwithstanding...when compared with several other thought threads in Lincoln, it is not incompatible. Fair scales capitalism is not socialism, Hoot. It just isn't. Fair scales capitalism need look no further than the essential Judaeo-Christian Founder's Book. Of course, I wouldn't expect you to think about that.