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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Poor Obama, he must be the most persecuted president in US history what with 99% of the media giving him a tough time.
O: Can’t I just eat my waffle and spout out bad bs, or do I have to be coherent?
I don’t recall Lincoln ever chewing through his leash and running rabid through the chicken coop there, O(h)-boy.
Call someone who cares—757-622-PETA. Take the wookie you’re married to with ya. It should be a gas.
Yep...Barry has to split his own fire wood and use an outhouse.
Someone should photoshop a bubble on Lincoln’s photo: “Are you $hitting me?”
:”D
obama has VERY BIG EARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There will never be an Obama town car.
OMG! He did not REALLY say that did he???? ROFL!!!
Yeah , he wants a nice civil war , that’s why he hasn’t heip his inner city folks the easier to start some good ole riots , he of course will over play his hand like all rats .
How.
In The HELL.
Did Black Banana EVER get a reputation for being Smarter than ANYBODY??
Abe never got to ride around in a “Black Blunder Bus.”
Don’t be silly, molson. It’s ALWAYS a fly.
Wow...what a self-absorbed whiney-boy.
I give him a month or two until he is in full meltdown mode. It will be a pleasure to watch. FUBO.. Marxist in chief.
There is NO way Obama had it tougher than President Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln lived in a cabin with a dirt floor, did his homework by firelight, actually studied for the law tests, actually practiced law. There is no WAY the narcissistic one had it tougher than Abe Lincoln. Shoot, Obama’s ancestors didn’t have it tougher than Abe Lincoln.
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