Newsweek: Obama Just like Lincoln?

publiusforum.com ^ | 10/07/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

Howard Fineman has no knowledge of history. In fact, it would not surprise me if we should find out some day that, in his original draft of this absurd comparison of Lincoln to Obama, he even spelled Lincoln's name wrong. It is just that obvious that Fineman knows nothing of what he speaks. You see, Howard Fineman has decided that Barack Obama is somehow just like Abraham Lincoln. This is hero worship at its worst without being weighed down by any facts. It's so bad that one wonders if Fineman had a Matthewsian "thrill up his leg" when writing this sycophantic slop?

In pondering if he should write a story about Obama's connections to Chicago, Illinois, Fineman found his mind wandering to Abraham Lincoln -- "the only president 'from' that city," as Fineman says.

And right there we have the first stretch of reality to fit Fineman's gauzy feelings. Lincoln was neither from nor "from" Chicago. Lincoln certainly visited the city during his lifetime but he never lived in Chicago and was never considered "from" there. His political machine was also not "from" there. His was very much a down state machine centered in Springfield, the State Capitol. So right off the top we have a tenuous connection between Lincoln and Obama whipped up to absurd proportions in Fineman's mind.

Next we get this gem of historical illiteracy...

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[Mobile Vulgus]

These people are stupid as hell...

[RabidBartender]

FreeRepublic: Newsweek just like Charmin?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I knew President Lincoln. Barack HUSSEIN Obama is NO President Lincoln!

[Yankee]

They think we are as stupid as they are.

They’re in for a rude awakening.

[dirtboy]

Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama wants to enslave the free.

[RabidBartender]

I am thoroughly convinced if it weren’t for dentist/doctor’s office waiting rooms, airlines, and public libraries, Time & Newsweek would be out of business.

[jersey117]

First of all, Lincoln was a Republican.....

[VR-21]

Why did the Abraham Lincoln Brigade just come to mind?

[drzz]

Newsweek means : Obama, like Lincoln, will get America into a CIVIL WAR

[autumnraine]

If Obama is Abraham Lincoln because he is from Chicago (which he’s not “from”, only a transplant) then he is also Al Capone.

[screaminsunshine]

I would like to see Fineman get a background check. Wonder if he has ties to commies. Same with Mattews.

[DiogenesLaertius]

I hate howard finemann. He’s one of the biggest idiots in the mainstream media along with Paul Krugman and Joe Klein. Every article is hero worship short on facts and full of partisan talking points.

[autumnraine]

Now that is very very true.

[Vigilanteman]

The only thing he might have in common with Lincoln is that his election could launch a civil war.

[AlexW]

I am sure by election day, the LSM will be calling him the SON OF GOD.

[2banana]

"The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts --not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert that constitution."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-assassinated 1865), speech in Cincinatti, OH, September 17, 1859

[Oztrich Boy]

These people are stupid as hell...

Hell is not stupid

[FlingWingFlyer]

My thoughts exactly.

[screaminsunshine]

The only way he is like Lincoln. He may be the head of the Blues in the next civil war. Vs the Red States.

[Melinda]

Obama, Obama, you send a thrill up my leg. You have my children marching, chanting for your ascension. You have radicals and terrorists working all over the world on your behalf. You even have the Opec oil czars on your side controlling the markets and the campaign. They have chosen you, oh Obama, as our next leader. You will be their puppet on a string. We shall sing to you, oh Obama, we shall praise you, and raise you up. You are our savior!!!

[lonestar]

Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama wants to enslave the free.

Shout it from the rooftops!

Also, Lincoln wrote his own speeches and didn't need a teleprompter.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

He is more like FDR, an American fascist.

[FrdmLvr]

STOP!!! Your remark triggered a coughing fit from laughing so hard!!!!!! Actually keep it up.

[Mr Rogers]

Part of me wants to see Obama elected.

I’d love to see the fight between Matthews, Fineman and Klein on who gets to stuff their face between their Messiah’s thighs...

[bcsco]

Next Fineman imagines that both Lincoln and Obama might share some mythical ability to “unite a ‘house divided’”? How is this again? First of all, Lincoln’s efforts begat a bloody Civil War that killed over 600,000 Americans and it was only his assassination that led to any sort of reunification in spirit. But that his hard work did, ultimately, lead to that healing of the “house divided” is beyond doubt, even if it was posthumous.

It was Lincoln's election that proved the catalyst for South Carolina and other states to secede from the Union. And it was Lincoln's determination that saw the subsequent war to reunite the Union (and ultimately the abolition of slavery) to a successful conclusion. How that equates to a "mythical ability to 'unite a house divided’” escapes me.

[GitmoSailor]

No way!!!!!!!!.......

[Osage Orange]

More like........

Newsweek = Pravda

[LeonardFMason]

Tes. Lincoln CHAFFEE

[MozarkDawg]

Newsweek: Obama Just like Lincoln?

"You canNOT be serious!"