Kathianne
08-17-2011, 01:38 AM
http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/
Published: 4:07 PM 08/16/2011 | Updated: 12:41 AM 08/17/2011
President Barack Obama said yesterday in Decorah, Iowa, that he
absorbs more political criticism than Abraham Lincoln, the assassinated
16th U.S. president, attracted from his Civil War critics (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#).
The comment came during a question-and-answer session where one
invited audience member asked Obama how he deals with his congressional
critics in the GOP. “The Congress doesn’t seem to be a good partner. You
said so yourself, they’re more interested in seeing you lose than
[seeing] the country win,” the questioner lamented.
“Democracy is always a messy business in a big country like this,”
Obama responded. “When you listen to what the federalists said about the
anti-federalists … those guys were tough. Lincoln, they used to talk
about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”
...
Yep, that's what he said.
In the same article, some experts weighed in:
...The comparison “is hysterical … that is really laughable in many respects,” said Alvin Felzenberg, the author of a book on American presidents (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#). “You couldn’t print things today they said about Lincoln.”
...
...Eric Foner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian at Columbia
University. “Obama is a guy who has a thin skin and does not take
criticism well.” Foner’s Pulitzer-winning volume was titled ”The Fiery
Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.”
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...Obama’s sensitivity to criticism is bound up with his progressive
ideology, which sees political disputes as best resolved by experts,
said Michael Franc, vice president for government studies at the
Heritage Foundation. Obama believes “he has discovered the truth and if
you disagree with him, it’s not only against the country, its
unpatriotic and anti-Obama,” Franc suggested...
...Eric Dezenhall, a former communications aide to [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#"]President Ronald Reagan (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#ixzz1VGVr68GH),
went ever further in an interview with The Daily Caller: Obama’s
complaint, he said, “is more grandiose than narcissistic … It’s equating
any form of push-back with some sort of giant historical crime.”
...
Published: 4:07 PM 08/16/2011 | Updated: 12:41 AM 08/17/2011
President Barack Obama said yesterday in Decorah, Iowa, that he
absorbs more political criticism than Abraham Lincoln, the assassinated
16th U.S. president, attracted from his Civil War critics (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#).
The comment came during a question-and-answer session where one
invited audience member asked Obama how he deals with his congressional
critics in the GOP. “The Congress doesn’t seem to be a good partner. You
said so yourself, they’re more interested in seeing you lose than
[seeing] the country win,” the questioner lamented.
“Democracy is always a messy business in a big country like this,”
Obama responded. “When you listen to what the federalists said about the
anti-federalists … those guys were tough. Lincoln, they used to talk
about him almost as bad as they talk about me.”
...
Yep, that's what he said.
In the same article, some experts weighed in:
...The comparison “is hysterical … that is really laughable in many respects,” said Alvin Felzenberg, the author of a book on American presidents (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#). “You couldn’t print things today they said about Lincoln.”
...
...Eric Foner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian at Columbia
University. “Obama is a guy who has a thin skin and does not take
criticism well.” Foner’s Pulitzer-winning volume was titled ”The Fiery
Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.”
[/URL]...
...Obama’s sensitivity to criticism is bound up with his progressive
ideology, which sees political disputes as best resolved by experts,
said Michael Franc, vice president for government studies at the
Heritage Foundation. Obama believes “he has discovered the truth and if
you disagree with him, it’s not only against the country, its
unpatriotic and anti-Obama,” Franc suggested...
...Eric Dezenhall, a former communications aide to [URL="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#"]President Ronald Reagan (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/16/obama-i-have-it-tougher-than-abe-lincoln/#ixzz1VGVr68GH),
went ever further in an interview with The Daily Caller: Obama’s
complaint, he said, “is more grandiose than narcissistic … It’s equating
any form of push-back with some sort of giant historical crime.”
...