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Home Front: Politix
Rahm Emanuel Likens Obama to Lincoln
2012-12-04
[CNS News] Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama
I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go...
, likened Obama’s values and “ability to see a clear road where everybody just sees fog” to President Abraham Lincoln as depicted in the 2012 Steven Spielberg movie “Lincoln.”

Speaking at Northwestern University on Friday, Emanuel said, “And I think the president’s experience as somebody who was a community organizer on the South Side, dealing with the steel workers who had lost their jobs and lost any possibility of having a job in their industry mid-life, how they were going to retrain, how they were going to get themselves back on their feet and how they were going to value themselves, was a guiding principle for him.”
Posted by:Fred

#10  Nah. He's talkin' about that guy on the Mod Squad. Linc
Posted by: Thusort Ebbomoting1144   2012-12-04 16:10  

#9  maybe Rahm could invite Moochelle and Obumble to the 'theater' to watch the movie.
Posted by: airandee   2012-12-04 11:33  

#8  I was about to say more or less what JohnQC said. Lincoln was a great President because he put an end to Slavery but imagine if you did the same exact type of devisive actions on behalf of creating indentured servitude? That would be Obama.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-12-04 10:04  

#7  Lincoln? Well, maybe if you consider that Lincoln's policies resulted in the deaths of 600,000+ American citizens, he invaded the South, he destroyed the South for years to come as a result of the war, and he suspended basic citizen's civil rights.

All kidding aside, if you look at all the available lists of best and worst Presidents, most of the those considered the worst Presidents have many traits that are more admirable than those of Barack Obama. Of course Rahm Emanuel would say this as he is vested in Obama's legacy.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-12-04 09:10  

#6  Now that you mention it, back in the Memory Hole(tm) you'll find pics from the old Left in which Lincoln was among the pantheon of idols, right next to Lenin.

This isn't These aren't the Lincoln droids you're looking for.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-12-04 08:52  

#5  Isn't it a demotion?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-12-04 08:19  

#4  Not quite. But Michelle Obama is like Mary Lincoln.
Posted by: Eric Jablow   2012-12-04 07:53  

#3  How, Rahm, by taking us into civil war? Certainly not by freeing the (wage) slaves!
Posted by: Bobby   2012-12-04 05:54  

#2  I'm coming to the opinion, that these people just like to find some pretty words, string them together, and do believe, "Repeat these words long enough, they will be believe." Or something like that..........
Posted by: Sherry   2012-12-04 00:41  

#1  Nope, NOT everyone, he's an "Uncle Tom" if anything.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-12-04 00:13  

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