Friday, March 27, 2009

Obama's hero

In what way is Obama like the role model he pretends to emulate?

9 comments:

Sean said...

“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name — liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names — liberty and tyranny.”

Abraham Linkoln, 1864

Doug said...

Well, put me on the side of men that sometimes like to please themselves.
Not so crazy about the concept of doing what I may please with other men.
Seriously though. Speaking of tyranny wasn't it old Honest Abe that suspended Habeus Corpus?
Seems like a good and decent man and Lord knows he had his burdens but read his history and see if you don't think if that wasn't one seriously conflicted individual.

rac said...

He once walked 100 feet back to the shores of Lake Michigan when his canoe ran onto a sandbar. He fed his entire cabinet with only 2 cans of tuna and a loaf of Wonder bread. And lastly, during the election he was crucified by a bunch of religious zealots only to later rise from the dead.

Is that what you were referring to?

rac said...

"do as they please with other men"?

I guess maybe the rumors were true that ol' Abe was really a Log Cabin Republican.

Dave said...

I think Sean was referring to Barney Frank. Now there's a role model...

Sean said...

typical - I posted about Obama and how he claims the mantle of Abe Lincoln and espouses how much he admires him, yet I think he shares none of his beliefs.

What do you do? call Lincoln gay and talk about Habeus Corpus. (wait till BO's 'fusion centers' really kick off - but that's another topic)

Funny how you on the left can make an innuendo about someone being gay and it isn't considered homo "phobic" or even in bad taste.

Doug said...

"...you on the left" huh?
You asked how Obama was like Lincoln, who Obama apparently emulates.
I asked, did Lincoln suspend rights of Habeus Corpus?
Hardly dismissive of your original point.

rac said...

Sean - your original comment was "In what way is Obama like the role model he pretends to emulate?" - I thought you meant Jesus.

As to whether or not Lincoln was gay - I could care less. Doesn't make him any less of a great man and President. And yes there has always persisted the thought that Lincoln was gay.

Doug said...

That rumor is most likely bullshit. It started probably from the discovery that while Lincoln was a poor starving lawyer in Illinois he shared a bed with another man in a rooming house.
Apparently a not uncommon practice among the working poor back in those times.
As you say, regardless. A man that carried the weight of the world on his shoulders from non stop personal and public tragedy.