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Obama: I have it tougher than Abe Lincoln
dailycaller.com ^ | Neil Munro

Posted on 08/16/2011 5:35:40 PM PDT by Justaham

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 Commission.

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.”

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To: SueRae

“They’re going to be taking him out in either cuffs or a straightjacket.”

That’s a thread winner, right there. LOL


81 posted on 08/17/2011 1:49:45 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (I'll take Fraudulent Marxist Usurpers for $2.4 Trillion, Alex.)
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To: Clintonfatigued; justiceseeker93; GOPsterinMA; LS; Perdogg; darkangel82; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Obama is an idiot. He must not know that back then the papers were partisan (officially I mean and there was no hard news/editorial separation) and viscous often false attacks (he’s a drunk, he has negro blood, he’s a whoremonger, he’s a traitor we should string him up) were commonplace in campaigns. Political correctness hadn’t been invented yet.

What a birther bloger writes about Obama today would be on the front pages of major newspapers in 1860.

Obama the Professor, more like Gilligan.


82 posted on 08/17/2011 2:20:39 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Justaham
Thin-skinned, arrogant, self-entitled overweening NARCISSIST......
83 posted on 08/17/2011 2:22:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: SueRae
Only one word for this kind of remark...delusional.

INDEED!

84 posted on 08/17/2011 2:23:50 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Justaham
He likes Abe, but what REALLY turns him on (besides his OWN portrait):


85 posted on 08/17/2011 3:10:28 AM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one doesn't need 'marching orders' to reach the same destination")
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To: Cobra64

Hahahaha...that’s GREAT!


86 posted on 08/17/2011 3:12:35 AM PDT by rlmorel ("When marching down the same road, one doesn't need 'marching orders' to reach the same destination")
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To: Justaham

“Almost” as bad as what he goes through?!! Punk is so full of himself and has his own world of delusion. He can’t handler when people KNOW what he is and the number is growing!


87 posted on 08/17/2011 3:14:37 AM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded
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To: mrspeelwerneeded

handler=handle


88 posted on 08/17/2011 3:15:43 AM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded
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To: tarotsailor

Welcome to the Twilight Zone.


89 posted on 08/17/2011 3:16:49 AM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded
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To: madison10

Remember, 0bama’s maternal ancestors owned slaves. His father was a Kenyan and they sold their fellow Africans into American slavery. Such a great legacy. He’s even a phoney on the great black hope front!


90 posted on 08/17/2011 3:19:11 AM PDT by mrspeelwerneeded
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To: Justaham

Man, they treated Lincoln like a dog too!!!


91 posted on 08/17/2011 4:39:45 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SERKIT
Lincoln healed a nation

The CSA wasn't "healed" by the Civil War.

92 posted on 08/17/2011 4:55:01 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Justaham

Did Abe have a kiss-*ss biased media constantly glorifying and covering for him?


93 posted on 08/17/2011 5:36:44 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Justaham
President Barack Obama said yesterday in Decorah, Iowa, that he absorbs more political criticism than Abraham Lincoln

Congratulations, Barry! You've certainly earned it!

94 posted on 08/17/2011 5:42:45 AM PDT by Teacher317 (really?)
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To: Justaham

I’m all for making that comment true. The Yankees don’t have the guts nor the moral highground to stop us this time.


95 posted on 08/17/2011 6:32:47 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
If I posted what I’m thinking I would be banned for life.

Aw go ahead Mr. Wilkes-Booth, say it.
96 posted on 08/17/2011 7:00:51 AM PDT by crosshairs (If Sharia Law becomes the law of the land, heads are gonna roll.)
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To: mrspeelwerneeded
Remember, 0bama’s maternal ancestors owned slaves

I did remember, that's why the claim is so ridiculous.

97 posted on 08/17/2011 7:29:50 AM PDT by madison10
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To: demshateGod

What Yankees?


98 posted on 08/17/2011 7:30:48 AM PDT by madison10
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To: GonzoGOP

Will he go out like President Lincoln? Just wondering.


99 posted on 08/17/2011 7:31:25 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: madison10

The Dang Yankees.


100 posted on 08/17/2011 8:54:59 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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