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Obama: I have it tougher than Abe Lincoln
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Posted on 08/16/2011 2:37:28 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Obama: I have it tougher than Abe Lincoln 1 hr 28 mins ago

President Barack Obama said yesterday in Decorah, Iowa, that he absorbs more political criticism than Abraham Lincoln, the assassinated 16th U.S. president, attracted from his Civil War critics.

The comment came during a question-and-answer session where one invited audience member asked Obama how he deals with his congressional critics in the GOP. “The Congress doesn’t seem to be a good partner. You said so yourself, they’re more interested in seeing you lose than [seeing] the country win,” the questioner lamented.

“Democracy is always a messy business in a big country like this,” Obama responded. “When you listen to what the federalists said about the anti-federalists … those guys were tough. Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”

The comparison “is hysterical … that is really laughable in many respects,” said Alvin Felzenberg, the author of a book on American presidents. “You couldn’t print things today they said about Lincoln.” Felzenberg teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and was the chief spokesman for the 9/11 Comission.

Criticism of Lincoln in his day “was even more vitriolic than what you see about Obama,” said Eric Foner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian at Columbia University. “Obama is a guy who has a thin skin and does not take criticism well.” Foner’s Pulitzer-winning volume was titled ”The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.”

Obama’s sensitivity to criticism is bound up with his progressive ideology, which sees political disputes as best resolved by experts, said Michael Franc, vice president for government studies at the Heritage Foundation.

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1 posted on 08/16/2011 2:37:31 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh yeah, honest Abe suffered from depression and migraines, I guess Bachmanns still in the race then.


2 posted on 08/16/2011 2:39:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: Sub-Driver
Geezez! What a whiny little bazitch.
3 posted on 08/16/2011 2:40:02 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Sub-Driver
Alright, who called him a gorilla.
4 posted on 08/16/2011 2:40:21 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Democrats creation of the entitlement class will prove out to be their very own Frankenstein monster)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama’s ego should be on Mt. Rushmore.


5 posted on 08/16/2011 2:40:29 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears ("But resist, we much...we must...and we will much...about...that...be committed." - Al Sharpton)
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To: Sub-Driver

Cry me a Rappahannock River.


6 posted on 08/16/2011 2:40:29 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Forest Gump of Presidents.


7 posted on 08/16/2011 2:41:00 PM PDT by Jane Long (2 Chron 7:14)
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To: Sub-Driver

Really?

Prove it: go out and spend a day splitting rails and then tell me how tough your life has been.

Scum sucker.


8 posted on 08/16/2011 2:41:16 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: Sub-Driver

Yeah, Lincoln just had a Civil War.

Obama’s got it a LOT harder.

/sarc


9 posted on 08/16/2011 2:42:08 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I bet nobody is going to call him Honest Obie.


10 posted on 08/16/2011 2:42:09 PM PDT by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: Sub-Driver

John Wilkes Booth might beg to differ.


11 posted on 08/16/2011 2:43:38 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama: I have it tougher than Abe Lincoln

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Oh, poor Bammie. I suggest he go take in a play. Over at Ford’s Theater.

Then come back and whine like a beyotch.


12 posted on 08/16/2011 2:44:12 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bring on the smallest violin section!


13 posted on 08/16/2011 2:45:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Honest Abe never complained


14 posted on 08/16/2011 2:45:11 PM PDT by South Dakota (shut up and drill)
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To: Sub-Driver

What a moron, he does not have to deal with half the country in an armed revolt against his governance and yet he thinks he has it as bad as Lincoln did.


15 posted on 08/16/2011 2:45:28 PM PDT by usmcobra
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To: Sub-Driver

Just when you thought it could get any worse...

Zero, you are a disgrace.


16 posted on 08/16/2011 2:46:13 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
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To: Sea Parrot

“Alright, who called him a gorilla.”

As a matter of fact Lincoln was called an ape. There were many cartoons portraying him as an ape and as a monkey. No matter what we call 0bama, he is no Lincoln.


17 posted on 08/16/2011 2:46:40 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: Sub-Driver

Obamalini has descended into full-frontal narcissism.


18 posted on 08/16/2011 2:47:04 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Sub-Driver

This is downright scary. He is totally delusional and has nuclear weapons at his finger tips. I hope that saner people are around if/when he goes off the deep end.


19 posted on 08/16/2011 2:48:16 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: Sub-Driver

His jump-the-shark moment came days ago when he said that the US is still a AAA economy, after we were all downgraded to AA+.

So, if he said this today, what do you call a repeat jump-the-shark moment?


20 posted on 08/16/2011 2:48:31 PM PDT by lurk
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