Thursday, January 17, 2008

nOpe

To Zorn. Abe Lincoln was a humble and great man.

Obama is neither.

Anyone who even brings up the comparison should be embarrassed. This includes Barack Obama himself.

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed."
Source:: March 9, 1832 - First Political Announcement

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Abraham Lincoln
Source: March 4, 1861 - Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

"We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed."
Abraham Lincoln
Source:August 22, 1864 - Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment.

UPDATE: Flying Debris with an apropos post, Obama on Mid-East: Let Them Eat Falafels!

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