For comic relief alone I assure you. As for Obama, there isn't any lack of ego on his part trying to link himself with Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest presidents this country has produced. Most people would have waited till they actually did something first.
We will continue to disagree on Lincoln: You think he was a water-walker; I think he was a despot who was largely responsible for the destruction of the republic envisioned and created by the Founders.