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David Gregory to Obama: 'Is This Your Lincoln Moment?'
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Posted on 12/30/2012 10:38:51 AM PST by Sub-Driver

David Gregory to Obama: 'Is This Your Lincoln Moment?' Obama: "I never compare myself to Lincoln." Daniel Halper December 30, 2012 11:06 AM

NBC host David Gregory asked President Barack Obama this morning, "Is this your Lincoln moment?"

The question came up after Obama invoked the movie Lincoln when talking about Republicans and Democrats coming together to work out a deal on the "fiscal cliff.

"Well, no," Obama said in response to Gregory's question. "Look, a) I never compare myself to Lincoln. And b) obviously the magnitude of the issues is quite different from the Civil War and slavery. The point, though, is democracy has always been messy. We're a big diverse country that is constantly sort of arguing about all kinds of stuff. But eventually, we do the right thing."


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To: apillar
The results of America's 2nd Great Patriotic War Against Centralized Tyranny (1861-1865) was the ONLY and I mean ONLY one in human history where the ends did indeed justify the means...

...it was a fortunate fluke but a fluke nonetheless by American traditions...

...we won't lose again with the 3rd.

21 posted on 12/30/2012 11:12:27 AM PST by Happy Rain ("November 6, 2012--the day Joe Smith and Brigham Young finally got their revenge on America.")
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To: Sub-Driver
"Look, a) I never compare myself to Lincoln..."

Interpretation: I consider myself comparable to Lincoln -- and FDR too for that matter -- but after thinking long and hard about whether to say so out loud, I have determined it makes better political sense not to. Instead I rely on sycophants like you, David, to make the comparison. So thank you.

22 posted on 12/30/2012 11:15:10 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Sub-Driver
'Is This Your Lincoln Moment?'

He only has Buick Moments.
24 posted on 12/30/2012 11:17:15 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What? Barry’s going to emancipate the blacks from the Dem plantation????


25 posted on 12/30/2012 11:20:00 AM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

Considering Obama and Reid are co- conspirators in this kabuki dance over the fiscal cliff.... It’s hardly a “Lincoln Moment “ ....


26 posted on 12/30/2012 11:22:02 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Sub-Driver

” I never compare myself to Lincoln.”

Next sentence: “ Why the hell do you think I hire so many flunkies, including you?”


27 posted on 12/30/2012 11:22:58 AM PST by DPMD
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To: Sub-Driver

It is his Hitler moment.


28 posted on 12/30/2012 11:23:20 AM PST by bmwcyle (We have gone over the cliff and we are about to hit the bottom)
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To: Sub-Driver
"I never compare myself to Lincoln."

Oh, bullcrap.

In fact, the only time he isn't comparing himself to Lincoln, or encouraging others to compare him to Lincoln, is when he's trying to compare himself to Reagan.

Obama's Lincoln Legacy - Bloomberg

Obama Looks to Lincoln

The Obama-Lincoln Parallel: A Closer Look

Lincoln points Obama to the high ground

The Similarities and Connections Between President Obama and President Lincoln

Obama: I have it tougher than Abe Lincoln

Obama and Debt Crisis Like Lincoln and Emancipation Proclamation?


29 posted on 12/30/2012 11:26:45 AM PST by Washi (Socialism is Slavery)
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To: Sub-Driver
“I never compare myself to Lincoln”

translated: “I make slaves not free them.”

30 posted on 12/30/2012 11:26:45 AM PST by Happy Rain ("November 6, 2012--the day Joe Smith and Brigham Young finally got their revenge on America.")
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To: Sub-Driver

A snippet for David Gregory: “...even to those addressed to gods, as exemplified in the common Tikopian prayer that prefaced many supplications with “I eat ten times your excrement.” From Polynesia in Early Historic Times, by Douglas L. Oliver


31 posted on 12/30/2012 11:28:25 AM PST by omega4412
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To: Sub-Driver
The point, though, is democracy has always been messy.

There he goes again.

32 posted on 12/30/2012 11:28:25 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Sub-Driver

With worshippers like this, no wonder the Kenyan thinks he’s God.

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.


33 posted on 12/30/2012 11:28:43 AM PST by fattigermaster
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To: bmwcyle

I think John Bolton meant the top 10 floors of the NY Slimes building.

If the media did its job, Obama would be sitting in a bar in Chicago blackmailing some company.


34 posted on 12/30/2012 11:30:29 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't bring something to its knees that refuses to stand on its own)
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To: Sub-Driver

“I never compare myself to Lincoln.”

http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/lincoln-bible-will-be-used-by-obama-at.html

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President-Elect Barack Obama has been doing his best to “channel” Abraham Lincoln ever since he kicked off his campaign for the presidency. He began his campaign in Springfield, Illinois at the steps of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln served for eight years in the Illinois Legislature. He’s referred to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team Of Rivals” countless times both during and after the campaign. The President-Elect will partially re-trace the route taken by Lincoln to the nation’s capital, departing from Philadelphia on a train. A welcoming ceremony will be held at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18. Just announced this morning is yet another move by Obama to honor the memory of his political hero, Abraham Lincoln.

According to the Presidential Inaugural Committee website, Mr. Obama will be sworn in as the nation’s 44th president while he places his hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln on March 4, 1861 during Lincoln’s first inauguration. This will mark the first time that this particular Bible will be used at a presidential swearing-in since Lincoln himself used it. The Lincoln Bible is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress, which was under no obligation to let it be used by Obama.

According to the site, Obama is “is deeply honored that the Library of Congress has made the Lincoln Bible available for use during his swearing-in. The President-elect is committed to holding an inauguration that celebrates the unity of America, and the use of this historic Bible will provide a powerful connection to our common past and common heritage.”

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35 posted on 12/30/2012 11:30:40 AM PST by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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To: miss marmelstein
Oh, Tim Russert! I miss you.

Russert was a well disguised hack as evedenced by his son Luke. Where do you think luke got his attitude and "facts" from? Tim's only redeeeming feature was that he did not spew hate and venom like many on the left. He acted as a gentleman, a rarity for the progs thses days.

36 posted on 12/30/2012 11:32:21 AM PST by Drill Thrawl (We have crossed the line from independence & liberty to dependency & servitude. We are doomed)
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To: Moonman62
Messy Democracy= free people wrestling in jello.

Clean Socialism= dead people decomposing in sewage.

Marxism 101.

37 posted on 12/30/2012 11:33:03 AM PST by Happy Rain ("November 6, 2012--the day Joe Smith and Brigham Young finally got their revenge on America.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Beat me to it.


38 posted on 12/30/2012 11:34:17 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Sub-Driver

...and scrape those pearls off your shoulder!

Was Obozo heading to the theater tonight??


39 posted on 12/30/2012 11:43:57 AM PST by Dick Bachert (An ARMED society is a POLITE society!)
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To: Sub-Driver

...and scrape those pearls off your shoulder!

Was Obozo heading to the theater tonight??


40 posted on 12/30/2012 11:44:09 AM PST by Dick Bachert (An ARMED society is a POLITE society!)
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