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Originally Posted by August
Funny you should mention that because I was just thinking of how as the civil war got going Abraham Lincoln spent hours pouring over military texts and studying maps in an attempt to understand the situation as best that he could. Then again he didn't have the heavy fund raiser event schedule that President Obama has.
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Heh. I didn't know that about Abe. Or maybe I did and simply forgot. How big of a role did Lincoln play in the Civil War, as far as deciding where and how to employ the military?
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Originally Posted by thorn69
It should be law that any presidential nominee has to have served in the US military as an officer to be considered for the presidency. I'm sick of all these bleeding heart hippies running the show.
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Isn't it already a requirement that a candidate must have served in the military at some point? Or did that all change?