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Lincoln vs. ObamaBarack Obama will make his presidential campaign official on Saturday with a kickoff event at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, inviting yet more comparisons to Abraham Lincoln. We get the ball rolling. Lincoln: Likeness on the five-dollar bill. Lincoln: Stovepipe hat. Lincoln: Born in a log cabin. Lincoln: Saddled with American Civil War. Lincoln: Debated Stephen Douglas. Lincoln: Jimmy Stewart is compared to Lincoln in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Obama: There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. Obama: That is the true genius of America, a faith . . . that we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand. Lincoln: It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Lincoln: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Lincoln: Born in a log cabin. Lincoln: Lean, mean, freedom machine. Obama: Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope? Lincoln: Spoke at Gettysburg. Obama: Biracial. Obama: Did coke. Lincoln: Plastic heads made at Museum of Science & Industry. - More Beachwood Obama coverage: Posted on February 11, 2007 |
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