Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the last leader I was expecting to be invoked during last night’s humiliating U.S. presidential debate — a conversation that, like so much of this campaign, demeaned not only the candidates and commentators, but also every other American. Still, when Hillary Clinton was asked by moderator Martha Raddatz to explain comments she allegedly made in a speech to Goldman Sachs – remarks leaked recently and in partial form by Wikileaks – in which she purportedly said that leaders sometimes need a public and private position on certain issues, Clinton replied: