harassing the political winds and all that.
At 03:38 PM 6/29/2005, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>OK, so Barak didn't come from a life of poverty. But
>there are two another disanalogies to Barak's credit:
>(1) Lincoln was a successful corporate railway lawyer,
>best in the East by all accounts if not smooth by
>eastern standrads, while Brak passed up the opporunity
>to make megabuck sin big firm law to teach; (2)
>Lincoln was, to use W's phrase, a divider not a uniter
>-- that was not his fault and maybe it wasa virtue in
>the times, but Barak is a uniter -- he actually can
>get downstate whites who have never voted for a black
>in their live to support him, not because he advocates
>conservative policies, but because he hasa gift of
>talking to people like one one I've ever seen. It's
>not Clinton's smarmy charm, it's just that he takes
>people seriously.
>
>
>--- snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > heh. from another list. I'll leave the msg from the
> > conservative in
> > brackets for gits and shiggles)
> >
> >
>http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006884
> >
> > (And by the way, this isn't simply Democrat-bashing.
> > Noonan also criticizes
> > Republicans in this piece. But her dismantling of
> > Obama, who recently
> > compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, is priceless.
> > Here it is:)
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> > Mr. Obama said he keeps a photographic portrait of
> > Lincoln on the wall of
> > his office, and that "it asks me questions."
> >
> > I'm sure it does. I'm sure it says, "Barack, why are
> > you such an
> > egomaniac?" Or perhaps, "Is it no longer possible in
> > American politics to
> > speak of another's greatness without suggesting your
> > own?"
> >
> > ****************
> >
> > (Just so. Mr. Obama, we know Lincoln, and you're no
> > Abraham Lincoln.)
> >
> >
> > redacted
> >
> > "Finish your beer. There are sober kids in India."
> >
> > -- rwmartin
> >
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