CNN iReport

It’s been 200 years since his birth  and we are still fascinated by Abraham Lincoln

who is arguable one of our greatest president if not the greatest.

However Lincoln

could never be elected today.   First off, if truth be told, we have admit he could

best be  described as ugly. Now to people

like myself anyone who is that ugly transcends ugliness and takes on a kind of

beauty all their own. Gargoyles come to mind. But it  would not  get  many votes. In addition unlike the many actors

who portrayed him in movies and TV he has a high screeching voice often

described as unpleasant. Few might want tot listen to it today.

And if that were not enough, depending on which Lincoln author you  read, he was clinically depressed  and  or suffering

from rare medical conditions which impacted on his every action including how

he governed.  Would you vote for someone like

that?

Yet, despite all of that he achieved greatness and saved the

country from disaster. 

In these troubled we have to  hope and pray that our current president

despite is polished  appearance and

auditory   would be blessed with 1/10^th of Lincoln’s abilities.