Though right now it is hard to imagine why.
Isn’t fulfilling your dream of being President of the United States right now kind of like fulfilling your dream of being a number one NFL draft pick…and then realizing that means being the quarterback of the Detroit Lions?
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President Obama has been praising Abraham Lincoln a great deal recently, acknowledging that without Lincoln’s presidency, a black man might never have been elected President. With all due respect to and admiration for Lincoln, without George W’s efforts, a black man might not have been elected President.
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Too easy but…
Republicans are getting a little tired of the Obama-Lincoln comparisons. In fact today John McCain stood up and said “President Obama, I knew Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln was a friend of mine, President Obama, you’re no Abraham Lincoln.”