Giuliani, reports the Carpetbagger, got all gushy in the Granite State the other day, seeming to compare Bush to Lincoln by pointing out "Lincoln even faced riots in New York City because people were unhappy with the war. 'They wanted to quit because it was getting too tough.'"
As Guiliani surely knows, however, he having been employed in the Big Apple himself for a while, the Civil War-era New York riots were not protests against the war, necessarily, but protests against the draft - probably why they're called the New York City draft riots - and the rioters were rioting not because things were "getting too tough," they were rioting because Lincoln, a Republican, was trying to save all the deferments for Trickshot Dick.
OK, you're right, I did just make that last part up. Trickshot Dick didn't need a deferment in that war because Lincoln's "Enrollment Act" contained a nifty clause that let guys who had the money just buy their way out.
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