Following the election, National Public Radio interviewed a man on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He said the 16th president would be pleased that what he had started in 1862 had reached the point where a black man had been elected to the presidency.

That man is just one of millions of U.S. citizens who spend hours in front of the television and seconds in intellectual or spiritual pursuits.

Anyone who has read biographies of Abraham Lincoln, and who lives by a true Christian ethic, knows that Lincoln would not be pleased with a person like Barack Obama.

Lincoln would never have voted for a person who believes it should be legal for a mother and/or father to have their unborn child killed by a doctor; who believes that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle; who believes it’s proper for a government to forcibly redistribute money from the wealthy to the poor; who believed in a pastor and church that preached racial supremacy and “God damn America.”

There are many more reasons Lincoln would never have endorsed Obama. He would have easily seen through the smooth-talking patina and noted a miseducated, corrupt ward politician from Chicago. In a real debate, he’d find an empty suit.

Lincoln was the president of a mixed-up Christian nation. Obama will be the president of a fallen Christian nation, elected by apostates, atheists, agnostics and simple fools.

William Van Tassel, Turner