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MSNBC's Chris Jansing: 'Parallels' Between Lincoln and Reelected Obama are 'Fascinating'
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Posted on 11/12/2012 9:40:27 AM PST by chessplayer

MSNBC host Chris Jansing on Monday found the "parallels" between Abraham Lincoln and the newly reelected Barack Obama to be "fascinating." The anchor interviewed Gloria Reuben, liberal actress and co-star of the Steven Spielberg film. Jansing connected, "...You have a president who is newly elected, who faces a divided country and a divided Congress and a divided country."

Couldn't such a vague analogy be made for many presidents, including George W. Bush? Jansing introduced the Lincoln actress by pointing out, "You're a social activist. You've been very big in pro-choice. You've been a supporter of Barack Obama and the AIDS movement." She added, "You must find these parallels fascinating." It's unclear what how supporting abortion can be connected to Lincoln.

Reuben touted the comparison as "fascinating and really uncanny."

Reuben reiterated, "But the parallels are really unbelievable how timely this film is."


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1 posted on 11/12/2012 9:40:31 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

It will probably end up more like Nixon’s second term.


3 posted on 11/12/2012 9:43:09 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: chessplayer

Another empty head in support of the empty chair. Wanting so desparatley to create a legend an icon to worship for so many empty lives with empty heads


4 posted on 11/12/2012 9:43:31 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: chessplayer

both lousy Presidents - that’s the similarity - neither were, or are , our troops friends .


5 posted on 11/12/2012 9:43:52 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: chessplayer

Barf alert?


6 posted on 11/12/2012 9:44:46 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: chessplayer

Parallel?

Holding the 10th Amendment to the Constitution in comtempt and violating it to force an anti-Federalist (statist) agenda.


7 posted on 11/12/2012 9:45:28 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Bread and Circuses; Everyone to the Coliseum!)
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To: chessplayer
MSNBC's Chris Jansing: 'Parallels' Between Lincoln and Reelected Obama are 'Fascinating'

I was thinking more like a carpet bagger during reconstruction.

8 posted on 11/12/2012 9:45:47 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: chessplayer

I see a much stronger parallel between Obama and James Buchanan. Buchanan was the most divisive president in the first two centuries of our history. Obama may top Buchanan. I’m hoping that objective historians will rank Obama higher than James Buchanan - a lofty goal that would require Obama to improve dramatically in the next four years.


9 posted on 11/12/2012 9:45:58 AM PST by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Only similarities I see is both crapped all over the Constitution to pass their agenda.


10 posted on 11/12/2012 9:46:52 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: chessplayer
Reuben touted the comparison as "fascinating and really uncanny."

I can see the amazing comparisons.. Both tall, ugly, with big ears, and neither of them think the Constitution is the settled law of the land.. Oh yeah, they both are responsible for causing a Civil War.. Fascinating indeed..

11 posted on 11/12/2012 9:48:06 AM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: chessplayer

Another empty head in support of the empty chair. Wanting so desparatley to create a legend an icon to worship for so many empty lives with empty heads. Missing in zero case is: honor, character, integrity, love of ones country and the understanding of it’s values, intelligence of the non manufactured type, love of the founding fathers and the constitution. we can go on, bottom line is Lincoln should not even be in the same sentence as Obama.


12 posted on 11/12/2012 9:48:38 AM PST by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: ronnie raygun

Liberals despise Lincoln, so I don’t get why they keep wanting to compare obama to him.


13 posted on 11/12/2012 9:48:44 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer
Makes sense to me in a warped kind of way.

The historical inaccuracy of that film is breathtakingly bad.

14 posted on 11/12/2012 9:48:51 AM PST by Clarence
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To: struggle

Not with the press with its lips Baracks a##...,


15 posted on 11/12/2012 9:49:17 AM PST by Kozak (The means of defence again.t foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: chessplayer
Looks like the "First Black President" has to take a back seat to the First Half-Black President in terms of MSM Idolization & Worship.
16 posted on 11/12/2012 9:49:53 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: chessplayer

Does this mean a new Civil War is about to start? Or perhaps White people are going to be emancipated.


17 posted on 11/12/2012 9:50:59 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: chessplayer
Dumbass. Lincoln was Republican. Oboma is Marxist.

Lincoln freed the slaves. Oboma is manufacturing them.

The two have absolutely nothing in common.

18 posted on 11/12/2012 9:51:03 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: NKP_Vet

BTW, they both have/had homely, crazy wives.. carry on.. :)


19 posted on 11/12/2012 9:51:45 AM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: concerned about politics

Put you all back in chains. Thank you mr vice president


20 posted on 11/12/2012 9:54:25 AM PST by shadeaud (We need to learn to know what our enemies are truly creating)
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