Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The Great Emancipator was fond of saying that God created all men as equal, and proved as such with the Emancipation Proclamation, and laying the foundation for what would become the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. An evil Republican, Lincoln did more for the black American than any Democrat of his time. They were too busy seceding from the Union and keeping the black American chained in slavery. Lincoln also signed in to law the act of Congress which placed the motto "In God We Trust" on our national currency. Lincoln didn't have a problem with this because he was educated enough to know that there is no such thing as the separation of church and state, since he was familiar with the principles upon which our nation was founded. Happy Birthday, Mr. President. May we not squander the legacy you left us, so "that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."