A president is a leader, someone who has a courageous nature. Someone
who is honest, has superior leadership skills, and can handle themselves in a
crisis situation. A president has to be able to hold their country together
through the toughest times. Two great examples of this figure is our 16th
president Abraham Lincoln, and our current one, George W. bush. Abe Lincoln is
viewed as one of the greatest of all time, while bush has gathered a negative
outlook. But I am here to look at the reality of it; I will compare these two
based on my opinion and not those of historians or bloggers.
Abe Lincoln’s nickname is “Honest Abe”, so honesty and integrity is
obviously one of his strong points. Abe got his nick name as a young adult in
managing the country store, as in everything that he undertook for others,
Lincoln did his very best. He was honest, civil, and ready to do anything that
should encourage customers to come to the place, full of pleasantries, patient,
and alert. On one occasion, finding late at night, when he counted over his
cash, that he had taken a few cents from a customer more than was due, he closed
the store, and walked a long distance to make good the deficiency. At another
time, discovering on the scales in the morning a weight with which he had
weighed out a package of tea for a woman the night before, he saw that he had
given her too little for her money. He weighed out what was due, and carried it
to her, much to the surprise of the woman, who had not known that she was short
in the amount of her purchase. Innumerable incidents of this sort are related of Lincoln, and we should not have space to tell of the alertness with
which he sprang to protect defenseless women from insult, or feeble children
from tyranny - for in the rude community in which he lived, the rights of the
defenseless were not always respected as they should have been. There were
bullies then, as now.
While Lincoln has...