George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'

US News & World Report - Washington Whispers ^ | 2008-12-23 | Justin Ewers

[rabscuttle385]

Few people come as quickly to the defense of George McGovern as McGovern himself. The antiwar senator from South Dakota lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide in the 1972 presidential election, only to see Nixon, caught up in the Watergate scandal, resign in disgrace. For McGovern, though—along with many Democrats who followed him—the damage was done, and the now retired politician has spent decades defending the electability of antiwar liberals, insisting his campaign was undone by dirty tricks and bad luck. In recent years, McGovern, 86, hasn't relinquished the spotlight, condemning the war in Iraq and declaring Barack Obama, whom he endorsed after initially supporting Hillary Clinton, a "second Abraham Lincoln."

[rabscuttle385]

McGovern...Obama...*snicker*.

[massgopguy]

Does that mean that the south will be seceding?

[clintonh8r]

stupid old man....

[Soothesayer]

Obama does not believe in the INALIENABLE rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

He is the anti-Lincoln.

[Honeybunch]

McGovern....has maybe one synapse left at this point, and apparently it is not a healthy one.

[sono]

I hope so ... I fear a second Carter or, judging by his cabinet picks, a second Clinton.

[Vision]

Seriously. When did everyone go to lala land. Jeesh.

[domenad]

Sure he is! Minus the whole war and slavery thing. Oh and the beard. And the top hat.

He does have the pain-in-the-%@&$ wife that he has to make excuses for. Does that count?

[babubabu]

he is much more like clinton imo

[RightWhale]

This time the whole country will secede from California.

[BGHater]

Wow. More Fed power. Imprisonment of reporters and protesters.

[jveritas]

These people are isane, totally insane.

[duffus]

So I guess we will have another war over taxes and states rights.

[rightwinggoth]

obama is not a republican

[jveritas]

These people are insane, totally insane.

[Vision]

What does Obama have to compare to this?

Lincoln

1831 - Lost his job
1832 - Defeated in run for Illinois State Legislature
1833 - Failed in business
1834 - Elected to Illinois State Legislature (success)
1835 - Sweetheart died
1836 - Had nervous breakdown
1838 - Defeated in run for Illinois House Speaker
1843 - Defeated in run for nomination for U.S. Congress
1846 - Elected to Congress (success)
1848 - Lost re-nomination
1849 - Rejected for land officer position
1854 - Defeated in run for U.S. Senate
1856 - Defeated in run for nomination for Vice President
1858 - Again defeated in run for U.S. Senate
1860 - Elected President (success)

[silverleaf]

Barack Obama Is a ‘Second Lincoln’

Well, he may end up presiding over another civil war... but that's about where the similarities stop. Lincoln was an intelligent, humble, self made and selfless man. zerO is none of those.

[steelyourfaith]

Couldn’t McGovern at least wait to make that comparison until BO had at least accomplished something? I guess one just can’t take George seriously.

[jersey117]

Bad enough we don’t even celebrate Lincoln’s Birthday any more - now they want to diminish him even further by comparing him to Obama.

[ConorMacNessa]

If not the anti-Christ.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Cincinatus]

George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'

I agree. A second Lincoln Chaffee.

[mylife]

When will this preposterous meme end?

[theDentist]

And George McGovers is a rustic Runner-Up who lacks imagination... is merely parroting some other layabout’s words.

[AlexW]

“stupid old man....”

McGoober would think that Bozo the clown, or Peanut Brain
Carter was the second coming.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Never mind the fact that Lincoln was a Republican (former Whig) and Obama is a lib Democrat.

[mkjessup]

That silly bastard McGovern ought to know about ‘Lincolns’ since he was revealed as an Edsel in ‘72.

And 0bama is a remanufactured Yugo.

[Travis T. OJustice]

When will this preposterous meme end?

Let them keep placing him on high, the fall will only be greater when reality hits. If they are billing him as the greatest ever, when he shows he's mediocre at best, the perception will be further tarnished. Worst ever, maybe?

[An Old Man]

Watch your language!

[mylife]

Snort!

[exist]

Obama would be a second McGovern if not for the incompetence of the McCain campaign.

[clintonh8r]

Sorry! (Im there too!)

[RexBeach]

Well then, if Mr. Obama is the second Lincoln, then Michelle Obama is Betty Crocker.

Good Lord, Mr. McGovern has, apparently, gone round the bend.

[samtheman]

A second Lincoln Chaffee.

LOL!

[Iron Munro]

Mybe Obama will be the white man’s Lincoln and free the white man from being slaves of the politically correct.

Ever since LBJ dreamed up the War On Poverty and The great Society whites (especially employed white males) have increasingly become second class citizens.

When society says it allows preferred treatment for one group what that really means is that it discriminates against another.

Forty years after MLK, whites have the same dream he had - We dream that all Americans will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Obama, we Hope you can bring Change for us too.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Why wait..........let’s just change the penny, replace the memorial in DC, and add Obama’s face to Rushmore now......

[CholeraJoe]

Maybe another George Lincoln Rockwell.

[tatsinfla]

i think it means he is going to free the whites....yippie....

[SouthDixie]

According to a press release by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, President-Elect Barack Obama will be sworn in using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for that purpose

I wasn't aware Lincoln was sworn in with the Qu'ran.

[eclecticEel]

In his day, Lincoln was the most hated President this nation has ever produced; no other even comes into the running for that title. Saying the Lincoln was a “healing figure” isn’t some minor distortion of an arcane point of history; it’s a wholesale rejection of even the slightest understanding of his entire presidency. He was also about as far from an “anti-war” president as any man could possibly be.

[meyer]

i think it means he is going to free the whites....yippie....

I don't know about freeing the whites, but it would be nice to see a president that would want to free the taxpayers.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Barack Hussein Obama is Lincoln!

From an Internet source:

"It is, in fact, almost silly even to refer to "Constitutional rights" during the Lincoln Administration."

"Many have pointed out that Lincoln suspended habeas corpus . . . shut down hundreds of newspapers . . . instituted restrictions on firearms, and sent troops to violently suppress [demonstrations] . . . [pushed a program] of de facto nationalization . . . ."

Doh!

[tatsinfla]

i’ll 2nd that but i do not believe it is going to be THE ONE........

[truthguy]

More like a second Jimmy Carter.

McGovern; still clueless after all these years!

[oblomov]

Does that mean he will throw people in jail for disagreeing with him?

[musicman]

"George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'"

[Lou Budvis]

“This time the whole country will secede from California.”

I want Cal. to secede from Sacto and Frisco.

[wbill]

Perhaps we can hook up a generator to Pres. Lincoln. The electricity we’d get from him spinning in his grave would light a small city.

[andy58-in-nh]

"And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

– Abraham Lincoln

Yeah, right. Just what Obama would have said.

[Gritty]

A second Lincoln?...

... more like a second Edsel!

[DB]

Does that mean we’re about to have a second civil war Mr. McGovern?

If so, your “Lincoln” is on the wrong side and is going to lose.