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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“They’re going to be taking him out in either cuffs or a straightjacket.”
That’s a thread winner, right there. LOL
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.
INDEED!
Hahahaha...that’s GREAT!
“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!
handler=handle
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
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!
Man, they treated Lincoln like a dog too!!!
The CSA wasn't "healed" by the Civil War.
Did Abe have a kiss-*ss biased media constantly glorifying and covering for him?
Congratulations, Barry! You've certainly earned it!
I’m all for making that comment true. The Yankees don’t have the guts nor the moral highground to stop us this time.
I did remember, that's why the claim is so ridiculous.
What Yankees?
Will he go out like President Lincoln? Just wondering.
The Dang Yankees.
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