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(Newsweek's) Obama's Lincoln
BAGnewsNotes — ... Hand wringing aside, however, do you know where I find the illustration most clever? The Newsweek cover story emphasizes how Obama, also mirroring Lincoln, desires to populate his administration with the strongest personalities he can find. Regardless how strong the character and ideological brew, the assumption is that Obama can temper it, mold it, and create a powerful balance out of it. ...

MORE OBAMA HAGIOGRAPHY FROM THE MSM
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — FROM NEWSWEEK. INSANE. BESIDES: ISN'T PERFORMING FELLATIO IN PUBLIC A CRIME!?!?!?

A Haitus for Honest Abe
The Moderate Voice — ... Evan Thomas at Newsweek obviously did not get the memo and in the new issue writes: “It is the season to compare Barack Obama to Abraham Lincoln. Two thin men from rude beginnings, relatively new to Washington but wise to the world, bring the nation together to face a crisis. Both are superb rhetoricians, both geniuses at stagecraft and timing. Obama, like Lincoln and unlike most modern politicians, even writes his own speeches, or at least drafts the really important ones—by hand, on yellow legal paper…” ...

The Note: Obama, McCain Could be Valuable Allies
Political Radar — Previous | Main The Note: Obama, McCain Could be Valuable Allies November 17, 2008 8:24 AM ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Monday's Note: Questions worth pondering while you’re thinking about the prospect of a Palin-free week: 1. Who will play a bigger role in filling out President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet -- Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, or Doris Kearns Goodwin ? 2. Will the Republican Party have to blow itself up to put itself back together ? (Which of those directions does Mike Huckabee’s new book take the party?) 3. Will the ...

Just Like Lincoln
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — USA Today notes another Lincoln parallel as President-elect Obama prepares to meet with Sen. John McCain today: "Early in his tenure, after the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln met with one of the men he defeated in the 1860 general election, Stephen Douglas." Newsweek has much more on the similarities between Lincoln and Obama.

Transition News 11/17
The Stump — In case you missed it Sunday, Obama did his first post-election interview on 60 Minutes. Obama detailed plans for government agencies in letter to federal employees, WaPo reports. How Obama is like Abraham Lincoln. Democrats move carefully as they prepare to control the homeland security department for the first time.  LA Times ponders whom Obama might appoint to the Supreme Court. Could Bill Clinton be a hindrance to a Hillary appointment at the state department? Jacob Weisberg says Obama's cabinet ...

Newsweek Sees Obama as the New Lincoln...
Gateway Pundit — Besides the fact that Obama voted against funding our troops at war, voted to surrender to the enemy, picked radical anti-American racists as friends, palled around with terrorists, is a Far Left liberal Democrat... ...

Newsweek Compares Obama To Lincoln
Flopping Aces — Perfect timing from Jonah: You and I read a Lincoln biography and conclude that Lincoln was great. Obama reads the same book and concludes that he is Lincoln. Not only does Obama conclude that he is Lincoln, so does Newsweek: Funny, I recall a few things about Lincoln. He saw this country through a devasting civil war with massive casualities and saw it through to the end. He did not concede defeat, nor tuck his tail and run. Obama saw his country defeating a foe, and demanded we turn tail and run. Lincolnesque he is ...

Pot Calling the Kettle: Joy Behar Labels Sarah Palin an 'Airhead'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Sarah Palin is an airhead proclaims the very dim Joy Behar. The same "View" co-host who blames earthquakes on global warming and just the previous day could not define the term "suffrage," snidely said of Sarah Palin "we all know that the woman is an airhead." Behar then continued to label those Obama critics "unpatriotic" (this of course after she considered dissent in the Bush years "patriotic") Joy Behar’s comments were sparked by a discussion on recent "Newsweek" and "Time" covers comparing President-elect Obama to ...

Bush was right. Victorious, too
The Anchoress — I’m still trying to keep to my new pledge of only writing about politics when it intersects with religion, but it does seem only fair to note that, Old Europe, which has been struggling all along with its restrictions, has finally admitted that, President Bush was right to keep America out of the Kyoto treaty. That’s all I’m going to say. Bush was right. Lots of numbers simply should not be trusted enough to build policy on them. And he also was effective on the environment in ways you never heard about in the mainstream media. ...

"From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful"
sisu —     February 12, 1809 isn't just for fans of Abraham Lincoln. Another great man whose legacy — like Honest Abe's, larger than life — inspires and enlightens ever more with the passage of time, was born the very same day in the very same year. Darwin's ...