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Obama Looks to Lincoln | Newsweek Politics

BAGnewsNotes found this 11/16/2008 on newsweek.com

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 ...