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.
Lincoln was often depicted as an ape by Democrat newspapers. Could you imagine a newspaper doing that today? Except for depicting President Bush as a chimpanzee, which, of course, is perfectly acceptable. /s//