Barack Obama: Not Lincoln After All
In heady aftermath of the 2008 election, Barack Obama’s many media admirers loved to paint the newly elected Democrat as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. A November 2008 Newsweek article titled “Obama’s Lincoln” was only-slightly more nauseating than most, when it proclaimed:
It is the season to compare Barack Obama to Abraham Lincoln. Two thin men from rude beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft and timing….
Obama himself cultivated and encouraged such comparisons, launching his presidential campaign from Springfield, Illinois, where he solemnly intoned:
[I]n the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together…I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.
In fact, the two men could not be more different — in character temperament and governing philosophy. Take, for example, their respective views of America itself. At a 2009 press conference, Obama addressed the idea of American exceptionalism: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” In other words, not at all.
Compare that with Lincoln’s oft-expressed and deep appreciation for our nation’s unique character and power. In one of his first public addresses in 1838, Lincoln said:
We [Americans] find ourselves in the peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells us….
Years later, as president presiding over a bloody war, Lincoln would call America “the last, best hope of earth” as he implored his fellow citizens to help him save it.
I never thought they looked silly. I thought then and I still think they were and are STUPID,
They are not only stupid, but corrupt, vindictive, dishonest, and continue to be in the tank for him.
The only thing Obama and Lincoln have in common is that they are both thin. To mention Obama’s name in the same breath as Lincoln’s is an insult to Lincoln’s memory. Obama was an idea that was packaged by a campaign, even though the man never had experience in running anything and had very little political experience as well. There never was anything in Obama except hype and spin. Yesterday’s pathetic speech on the stock market showed just what an empty suit Obama really is (as if we needed any more examples).
Lincoln not only had integrity, he was brilliant as well. He really was the right man at the right place at the right time in our nation’s history. We should thank God we had a man like that to guide us through our civil war. But Obama is a hack politician from Chicago that could give a good speech every now and then. A black man who’s campaign committee spun the idea that if you did not vote for him, you simply must be “a racist.” With the main stream media falling all over themselves to carry his political water, it’s no wonder he got elected.
But now the gloss has faded and America is in dire financial trouble due to the economic policies this jerk promoted. Well, the buck really does stop with the President and Obama is stuck with it. There is no way for him to spin his way out of this mess. Not even blaming the Tea Parties is going to save him. Nope, he’s a lousy president, and this time he can’t say we’re racists for saying so.
Of course he’s not Lincoln. He is Jesus. And Mohammed. And Buddha. All rolled into one. Multiplied by 10.
What? You mean you don’t believe our perfectly unbiased news media when they proclaim this?
Do you think a chinstrap beard would help Obama restore some of the lustre to his historic, unprecedented rise where he stands, god-like, across the divisive, even derisive divide engendered by the ankle-biting tea partiers?
Snake, I know not whether you speak in jest…but the comparison of Obama to Lincoln may be closer than we think. The history books are written by the men who win the war and thus “Honest Abe” has gone done as the man who saved America. In reality, he was in his time a pariah and a divider that confiscated power in Washington, and imposed a cruel yoke of servitude on those who would dare to defy his “vision” for America. He locked up his own cabinet ministers and scores of journalists who dared defy him. It mattered not how many of his fellow Americans died as long as his federalist vision was enacted. We owe most of the travesties of justice in this country(separation of church and state,abortion,governmental control of speech and education to the great uniter’s vision.The truth is a harsh teacher.
Comparing Lincoln to Obama is an interesting comparison of symbols. However, it is more profitable to step back and look at a broader picture.
Lincoln’s administration freed the slaves in Confederate states defeated and occupied by the Union Army. Further emancipation throughout the nation was accomplished by amending the Constitution. For several years after the end of the Civil War, the Union Army enforced the new rules of Southern society by force of arms. This period from 1865 to 1877 was called Reconstruction. It came to an end with the disputed presidential election which the House of Representatives decided in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes. As part of what some claimed to be a corrupt bargain, Hayes, as president, ordered the withdrawal of the Union troops from the South. America’s first Reconstruction thus ended in 1877. In essence, the North got tired of social engineering in the South by the federal government.
America’s Second Reconstruction, and a long overdue reckoning of the unresolved civil rights issues of the Civil War and First Reconstruction, began in the 1960s and ended several years after the disputed Bush-Gore presidential election with Obama’s election. America’s Second Reconstruction really has been a revolution in our society wherein blacks achieved political equality with whites, and whites have accepted radical change in society.
The radical changes in American society vis-a-vis race were long overdue. When I was a child in our city’s public school system, the only blacks I saw were black maids and house cleaning ladies waiting at bus stops at the end of each work day. In junior high school, I had only two black teachers, and there was only one or two black families who sent their children to our school. In the TV shows I watched as a child, the only black people I recall seeing were characters on Amos ‘n Andy, and a maid named Beulah on another TV show, and a couple of the characters in re-runs of the Our Gang comedies. Today, actors of all races are shown on TV in a variety of non-stereo-typical ways. We see black journalists, politicians, entertainers, and business leaders. My (white) children, attending the same public school system I did are now in the minority. Whereas, my own parents were keenly aware, and even fearful of race, my children barely give race a second thought.
In short, in the last half-century, white America has done admirably in reforming its views towards race. We have not achieved perfect equality in every way, granted. But, after all the changes embraced by white America, demagogues on the left still yelled the accusation that whites were still, and will always be, racists. The ubiquity of the charge has resulted in its devaluation as rhetorical currency. (What is the dismissive popular saying today?—”Oh, that’s so racist.”) Simply put, white America has become tired of being branded with the irredeemable sin of racism.
The election of Barack Obama was clearly a symbolic moment in American history. Obama’s election was, in large part, white America saying to society at large, and to the world, “You can no longer call me a racist. I voted for Obama.” Impliedly, white America viewed Obama’s election as a morally cleansing moment in which the alleged sins of racism were washed away. With this collective vote, America’s Second Reconstruction came to an end.
Just as white America said, with the inauguration of Hayes in 1877, “We want an end to the Civil War and Reconstruction. We just want to live our lives.”—-white America said, with the inauguration of Obama in 2009, “We want an end to the Civil Rights and Affirmative Action Second Reconstruction. The issue is settled. Our society is reformed. We now just want to live our lives.”
But, alas, we are a results oriented society. By this standard, Obama has failed miserably. Obama, as a symbol, is merely the last nail on our Civil War’s coffin. Beyond this symbolic value, Obama is nothing, except what he shows us by the fruits of his leadership.
Obama now is truly a symbol of America’s embracing racial equality. Black or white, you can run for public office. Black or white, you can thrive or fail. Black or white, your measure will be taken at the ballot box.
God Bless America. Long live our Republic.
Agreed. While I don’t believe Obama’s election marks the End of History for race relations in America, it was obviously a major occurrence. While I’m impressed that my country was able to rise above issues of race to elect its first black President, I find myself asking “Why did it have to be this guy?”
@ 5 Bugs
Agreed. Why not Alan West?
I truly enjoyed reading your “big picture” historical comparison HYC. I agree with many of your conclusions. I shake my head and marvel at the carnage white-guilt has wrought.
I have a much different perspective as I was born in June of 1963 and raised in Birmingham Alabama. I haved lived and worked around black folks continually, even in the US Navy.
President Downgrade is black in tone of skin and texture of hair only. The man is elitist snob and it oozes from every pore.
Yeah, whatever. Don’t bogart that thing, give it to me.
Enjoyed your comment/history lesson/perspective/conclusion. Bravo, best comment ever read on political site.
Impliedly?
Best regards, Lane
Were it not for the nightmarish economic situation he’s bringing down on the country, Obama would be a fascinating study in personality — What happens when you take a very ordinary and temperament-wise, non-threatening middle-aged man and, because of his race, have millions of people treat him as a near demigod simply because they believe that sort of elevation will make whatever he and they support politically totally unassailable by their opponents?
For those supporting him, they seem to have actually started to believe their own hype, to the point they are shocked today to find that all those amazing qualities they attributed to Obama in order to win over swing voters just aren’t there. Meanwhile, the man himself, like a dog being trained to expect to get a bone every time he presses a lever, has come to believe that the way politics is supposed to operate really is everyone else does the hard work, brings Obama the final results, and he then is given credit for making everything come together.
Finding out that Obama can’t heal the skies and oceans has made the left not feel like idiots for falling for their own propaganda, but mad at Obama for not being the deity they thought he would be — do do otherwise would mean they couldn’t continue to believe in their own intellectual superiority over conservatives, and their egos can’t handle that. Obama, on the other hand, when actually pressed to do his own work to come up with an answer to the current spending and debt problems, just keeps pushing the “Tax the Rich” lever, hoping that sooner or later that bone is going to finally come out.
this is a very insightful post
Considering the mobs of young blacks terrorizing cities in PA,MA,WI,IL,CA etc. chanting for the death of all white ppl,maybe Obama can be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of white men too.Obama has it easier than ole Abe though,Obama can acomplish it by just ignoring the events.
Oh Lydia…surely you do not believe that all the black rampaging going on is simply a result of unrest among the underprivileged! The democrats have worked hard to create this”underprivileged subclass” of Americans through their great society and the following programs that destroyed primarily the black family. Now we have millions of young black men who have never known their father or seen a manly example of how to live. When Mr O and his minions publicly ruminate on how suprised they are that America has not had it’s Arabic spring, they are actually encouraging disaffected blacks to take what they rightfully deserve from the evil whites who have enslaved them for over 100 years. If we get enough mayhem, the public will demand the federal govt stop the madness and “viola” we have martial law! It worked for Hitler…why not here?
First, he was Lincoln. Then he was JFK, and then, FDR. Lately, he fancies himself as Reagan. That’s what happens when, as Gertrude Stein said “there is no there there.” He has to be someone else, because there really is no him. He is, and always has been, the sum projection of what others wanted him to be. Barack Obama doesn’t exist, except in the hearts and minds of minions and sycophants.
In any case, in the end, he will be lucky to be seen as another Jimmy Carter.
It’s actually worse than that. The media assign him a favorable alter-ego because they recognize the real, actual person is, in fact, anathema to everything that Americans generally hold dear. They supported him ridiculously during the campaign because they had to, above all else, appear supportive of the black man. Not the “man with an unimpeachable political record” or even “the man who has such character as to be considered strong”. No, he was, by his own admission a “blank slate” who people could fabricate out of whole cloth whoever they wanted him to be. But at the end of the day, while the media are calling him a lion, he is instead a sloth, a toad or even just a rather uninteresting little worm. But what comes to mind is more parasitical than anything else, I’m just trying to be polite.
Everything that has been accomplished by this president and this administration has been negative. The ongoing question being, “Who is better off now than in November of 2008?” and the answer will be, those who got federal jobs, those in very specific unions, those capitalists who are cronies to this administration. The latter may be “that’s how they have to play the game” but the extent to which they play it is disgusting and now offensive.
Finally, I said it during his campaign and I’ll say it again. I have worked with people like Obama. They seem to be in every organization; The guy who still has a job but never seems to do anything. Somehow, he’s protected and remains employed while never being required to do any work. I even saw it in the military, where certain individuals would weasel their way into a job or duty that required very little of them and that position would thrive or become a liability based on the drive and character of its office-holder. It’s a very peculiar phenomenon but I never expected to see it in the office of president.
He’s a placeholder most of the time. A bully a large portion of that and a hard-core marxist with a passionate twist of anger and hatred to the greatest nation on earth. That last bit makes it most troubling because, as anger and hatred his sole motivation, the results of his policies and undertakings have been a nation that is becoming crippled by overbearing government. The only thing I can think of to excuse any of his behavior is that I believe he is such a marxist because everything he ever got in life came from the government. It is therefore natural for the man-child to resent his (real) parents for reasons that he was never required to work for anything. He also believes that it is his entitlement to be president and because he always thinks of things in an egocentric way, his secondary goal, but no less controlling, is to satisfy his anger and frustration. Most people who feel as he does who aren’t in possession of any responsibility or authority get a lot of speeding tickets, get in trouble with the law, pick fights they can’t win, antagonize others and see the world as “against them”.
He does all of that in his own way but has the cover of the media, which has several decades worth of experience running cover for minorities that misbehave, as well as a truckload of willing trolls who are also marxists who actually hate the president but find him a “useful idiot” when it comes to meeting their own agendas. Tell me Reid doesn’t talk to Obama like he’s nothing more than a common garbageman…with just enough respective tone to make the president think he’s respected. Tell me Pelosi doesn’t look at him with that all-too-familiar look of superiority, as in “down her nose” at dear leader.
Publicly, they use this president for their own gain. Privately, I’m sure they hate his guts as most democrats hate one-another anyhow. The stories the walls in Washington could tell. All it takes is for people who have rudimentary skills in understanding people and some life-experience and they would be able to see the contempt they hold against the president. Not to excuse the president. He IS contemptible. He IS petulant. He IS obnoxious, inexperienced, a bully and a blowhard. He is all of those things and more. The left just has become that much more dysfunctional in support of him, that’s all.
This is the second great insightful post in this thread. Congrats.
@ 8 SG-1
“He’s a placeholder most of the time.”
Excellent! “President Paper-Clip.”
“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.” — Bill Clinton, on Obama, to Ted Kennedy, in the book Game Change.
Pres O is what a 2 year old’s tantrum looks like 48 yrs later.
@ 8. William L. Gensert
“The lights are on but nobody’s at home.”
[And you can read that two ways:
There is a total absence of human entities, or
Mr. Nobody IS at home.]
Probably more like Wilson Goode.
Obama is the anti-lincoln.
Back when Barry’s sycophants were fawning over “The Audacity of Hope” (they surely didn’t read it did they ?), who knew that the title was code for “The Pomposity of a Dope”.
@ 10. whatmeworry
On board the“The Audacity of Hope”.
No comment from the Moslem Socialist Media,
about Buraq’s buddies (Hamas’s friends)
and THEIR failure to escape
the seduction of the Greek sirens.
Gee, all that terrorist aid for Gaza, going to waste.
Send it to Ayers and Dohrn?
Can anyone publish a listing of the sponsors/dollars for that non-event?
Why did the government do NOTHING to prevent that ‘aid to an enemy’?
Like Lincoln, he may be leading us into a Civil War….this time over whether or not we will all be enslaved by the government.
The South drove us to the war, and the South would tolerate no other course. Lincoln offered several alternative which would have acceptable to a South that wanted peace with protection for its peculiar institution. Even Frederick Douglass approved Lincoln’s course of enforcing the Constitution–it was the best thing to be done.
The South got what it instead, which was war.
Well, Lincoln is dead and Obambi is brain dead.
That’s sort of comparable.
Someday, some level headed psychiatrist should write a case history of the 2008 election campaign. There was something weird going on in the collective mind of America back then. I have never seen anything approaching the degree of hero worship people heaped on Obama. It was actually spooky, seeing Americans investing so much emotion and so many hopes in…well, just another guy running for President. There was something anti-democratic about it. Servile. Unhealthy. Un-American. That’s just my POV, though. I wonder what an unbiased shrink (if there is such a thing) would have to say about it.
I found it to be creepy as well.
We’ve never been a nation of building-length candidate banners, faux-Parthenon stages, kids singing about their leader, a candidate logo being put on everything and carried into the White House. This is the folly of communist countries and banana republics.
True, but the key event was when they tanked the stock market and oil prices to get the least qualified and most dangerous man in the country elected.
Without that, and despite his overwhelming stupidity, McLame would have won.
If a person voted for Obama can not be called a racist,
if a person voted for Obama he can be called stupid.
O.K. now I get it.
The ultra-partisan change agent Obama could never in a million years speak with equanimity as Lincoln did in his second inaugural address. Just think of the opening sentence, “with malice toward none, with charity for all.” Obama’s brain would melt if he tried to speak that phrase.
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Obama has one thing in common with Lincoln. They were both uniquely resolute in standing up for their beliefs.
Lincoln’s belief system saved the country. Obama’s belief system is identical to Lenin’s.
I’ll go farther than that, many people were sincere that President Downgrade was the Anti-Christ. He beguiles anyone looking for a handout from the State. Of course, most of us only said it in jest.
I believe Obama is a TYPE of antiChrist.
Mr. Gensert @ #8 touched on it,the way Downgrade appears to all people who will project their own appealing attributes and historical benchmarks to his mystique.
When the true fake Jesus comes back promising to fly us all away, most people will cast all reason aside to worship him, only it’s Satan playing Jesus. Performing miracles and promising peace and prosperity for all.
President Downgrade operates in much the same manner, so there it is. But DG can’t work miracles.
He can only lie and foul everything to which he lends his attention.
Just as Obama will never apologize for his many deceptions his sycophants–the good-intentions-matter-more-than-results crowd–will never apologize for enabling this absolute fake of a human being to become president.
Lincoln’s words remind us how blessed we are.
Obama’s words remind us how bleepin’ terrified we are and should continue to be.
My Civil War history buff brother points out the following:
The conclusions of this article are misleading… Lincoln cracked down on individual liberty, suspended habeas corpus, imprisoned anti-government protestors without hearings, etc., etc. You might say he began the accumulation of power into the Executive which Obama inherited, exploited, and expanded.
Thank you! These comments and this article lay it on almost as thick as the Lincoln symbolism at the beginning of Obama’s term. Lincoln cracked down on civil liberties far more than Wilson or any other president. Lincoln expanded government power far more than FDR or any other president.
While he was President, Lincoln was seen as a destructive tyrant. He was reviled – far more than Obama. He also had a terrible high-pitched voice and was seen as an intellectual lightweight. “Honest Abe” was a political spin that yet to run its course.
Freeing the slaves was, of course, great. Andersonville…extensive arbitrary and extra-legal arrests and detentions…not so great.
There were riots, spies, chaos, people starving, and carnage beyond our wildest dreams. Only political myth would have us believe that this was necessary to maintain the Union. Of course, Lincoln was a well-rounded person with a lot of life experience. Unlike Obama, Lincoln was an excellent attorney and he was great with language. Also, most unlike Obama, he was also an autodidact and a well educated man.
As for religion and belief in American exceptionalism, Lincoln was a radical and he was accused of not being Christian. He skillfully manipulated religious and political elements of our culture, so much so that he redefined the compact that holds our country together.
Oh, the Lincoln worship is thick today!
Contrary to your assertion, BOTH Lincoln and Obama were (are) responsible for the withering of liberty and the expansion of the federal government beyond its Constitutional limits.
In fact, Lincoln can justly be credited with ending America as the Founders envisioned, and delivering us to our present condition where, instead of being a union of sovereign States (that word meant what most of us would think of as a Nation), each voluntarily ceding SOME of its authority to a federal government in certain, LIMITED areas, we now have a collection of merely district governments subject to a supreme central government.
Lincoln’s war on the south was no more Constitutionally permissible than Obama’s adventures in Libya.
Oh, but Lincoln is a hero because he freed the slaves, and that’s what we were taught in school, right? Right. That’s what I was taught, and believed, too. Until I learned some history.
Lincoln never freed ANY slaves, but he did imprison people in the north for daring to disagree with him. He threatened to jail Supreme Court Justices for daring to rule against him. He refused to accept the return – not exchange, but the simple return of Union prisoners – knowingly and deliberately leaving his own soldiers to almost certain DEATH BY STARVATION because the South couldn’t feed them. Jefferson Davis BEGGED Lincoln to accept the return of those prisoners, no strings attached. The south offered to simply put them on trains and send them back. Back to their families, back to medical care that that the south could not provide, back to possibly fight again. Lincoln refused. Why?
As a coldly calculated military tactic, simply because their presence in southern prisons was a drag on southern resources. That’s not some revisionist’s theory – that’s Lincoln’s OWN WORDS.
Speaking of similarities, I don’t see much difference between the blind adulation of Obama by the left and the blind adulation of Lincoln on the right.
Both are founded on ignorance of the facts, an ignorance which is often willful (because the facts are readily available) highly emotional, and not at all rational.
The truth is Abraham Lincoln was a monster, and one of the worst things ever to happen to the United States of America.
“The truth is Abraham Lincoln was a monster, and one of the worst things ever to happen to the United States of America.”
wow
Frankly, I don’t think many on the right believe in saints. What conservatives generally believe is that people are prone to error and corruption. That’s a big reason the Constitution was developed.
But attacking Lincoln this way is loony. I have some sympathy with the States rights people, but that doesn’t exist in a vacuum either. If it’s a choice between a state’s right to enslave humans and slavery itself, the choice isn’t hard. 600,000 deaths was a huge price to pay, but my God, man, the moral choice couldn’t possibly be more clear. The only thing to dispute is whether there was another path. And given the recalcitance of the South, the choice was probably to endure the shame for decades longer, and it probably would have come to war anyway.
Attacking Lincoln this way is factual.
We all got sold a bill of goods in school. Do some reading – you’ll meet a very different Lincoln than the sanitized, and sainted, version you were spoon-fed.
Lincoln, more than any other President, is responsible for the destruction of the Founder’s principle of federalism.
Well let’s see, the US has been downgraded, our debt matches our GDP, a marxist is destoying the country, unemployment is 9.2%, we might be in a depression, for starters.
And this guy decides to jump in a hole claiming the country’s most honored president, the man who had the courage to end slavery, was actually the country’s worst enemy. And he’s tripling down on his claim.
That pretty much says it all.
Name one single principle of federalism he impaired in the slightest.
“Oh, the Lincoln worship is thick today!”
Why does recognition he did a hard job very well count as worship with you?
Oh I know, you’re a Confederate Apologist!
Continue prattling meaninglessly.
Until I was an adult I got all of my “learning” about Lincoln from the public-school approved sources (which means, the northern apologist viewpoint), and believed all of it.
As an adult (uh, NOT living in the south, unless you count southern California), I began studying the war for myself.
I found I had been spoon fed a pack of lies.
Dare you do your own research?
It is absolutely true that Lincoln and the Civil War changed us forever and made us significantly less Federalist. What you lack is the historical perspective and common sense to see that this essentially HAD to happen, because the alternatives were so much worse.
This blinkered view of things is a major weakness of the Tea Party view of the current situation. They tend to read the Constitution and go “Whoa; I don’t recognize what I am reading here in our current culture.” Anyone paying attention would have seen it all happen step by step, election after election. It is what is is.
Our whole culture has so much information on what is bad for us, what can hurt us, and a majority of people tend to worry about some of that stuff, so they PRESSURE the guvment to protect us from all of it. The idea that we will protect ourselves from it…does not compute, at least not to 51% for any extended period.
I expect you can’t name one lie. Certainly, if you’ve been listening to DiLorenzo or the Kennedy brothers you can’t. Their Lincoln and Civil War, respectively, never existed until they wrote them.
I am not prepared to assert that Obama is another Lincoln, but I don’t think that Lincoln had become the legend that most of us now revere at this point in his Presidency. How was Lincoln polling at this time in his first term?
We HAD recently won at Gettysburg and Vicksburg but it was not at all clear that Lincoln would be elected to a second term. McClellan and the Tea Party folks were lurking. Lincoln makes Grant overall commander in October and delivers the Gettysburg address in November, but it is not until the following year, when Sherman takes Atlanta and Sheridan dominates the Shenandoah Valley that his re-election seems assured, even though Grant is sustaining terrible losses in the Wilderness, Cold Harbor etc.
Lincoln would not have been Lincoln without such awful times. For Obama to become Lincoln, he would have to do the same. It is more likely that he will be called upon to be an FDR. In both cases it is instructive to note how much Lincoln and FDR were HATED by a goodly chunk of the population. Just saying.
And the draft riots in New York had taken place a month ago.
The left went nuts with using every available grain of sand, cobblestone, or cinder to go after GWB, once he did Iraq. The right went after Obama the day he was elected. So many people are so sure that the either sides President is causing the death of the Republic as they know it. Perspective be damned. It is even worse when the extreme views provide entertainment and ratings.
Imagine what we would be chatting about on the internets if Obama had caused draft riots, overseen loss after loss against supposed ragtag boys in butternut, and was Emancipating folks we had always “known” to be inferior.
The skinny Illinois rail-splitter was clearly in over his head, and his wife was crazy too. Impeach the ugly ape.
lincoln’s election precipitated a civil war during which he violated the constitution by suspending habeus corpus. He took property from people without due process. Sounds just like Obama.
Lincoln had the executive war power to suspend habeus corpus in emergencies, which decision was endorsed by the proper body to do it–the congress. He took no property not under the administration of the enemy, as was and is perfectly legal per the rules of war.
Lincoln did a good job dealing with a pack of Democrat traitors.
Obama is just a clown. Unfortunately, he’s a clown with all kinds of power. The best we can hope for is that there won’t be a serious crisis (like a Civil War) while he’s bumbling away in the White House, because if there is, he’s going to screw everything up big time.