Peggy Noonan: Obama flapping his wings... [View All]

Yesterday Rachel Maddow said on AA that there was the beginnings of a Durbin like assault about to start in Barack Obama based on a posting on Drudge re: Obama's comments on Lincoln in an essay he wrote for Time magazine. This morning the Noonan column below was posted. If you read the essay by Obama you can see that, like always, the RW attack machine is misinterpreting deliberately and taking all out of context what Obama wrote...but they are counting on few people actually reading it for themselves and they will likely end up demanding Obama apolgize for something he hasn't actually said/written. And why is Noonan writing about some Obama essay and not drooling over shub's speech like usual?

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Conceit of Government
Why are our politicians so full of themselves?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006884

This week comes the previously careful Sen. Barack Obama, flapping his wings in Time magazine and explaining that he's a lot like Abraham Lincoln, only sort of better. "In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat--in all this he reminded me not just of my own struggles."

Oh. So that's what Lincoln's for. Actually Lincoln's life is a lot like Mr. Obama's. Lincoln came from a lean-to in the backwoods. His mother died when he was 9. The Lincolns had no money, no standing. Lincoln educated himself, reading law on his own, working as a field hand, a store clerk and a raft hand on the Mississippi. He also split some rails. He entered politics, knew more defeat than victory, and went on to lead the nation through its greatest trauma, the Civil War, and past its greatest sin, slavery.

Barack Obama, the son of two University of Hawaii students, went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton's first campaign for the presidency.

You see the similarities.

There is nothing wrong with Barack Obama's résumé, but it is a log-cabin-free zone. So far it also is a greatness-free zone. If he keeps talking about himself like this it always will be.
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Obama's Essay on Lincoln below:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/28/obama.lincoln.tm/