Word: lincolnization
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...other person suddenly not taking risks is Obama. He hired old, experienced staffers--one of whom is so old, he was, impossibly, the Fed chairman before Alan Greenspan. It is possible that he's vetting people from Lincoln's Cabinet. Obama's economic scheme isn't to buy up vast amounts of mortgage-backed securities but to fix old roads and bridges. This is a guy who not only understood how to roll the dice in 2008 but might also have a good idea what we're going to be like for the next few years. We're probably...
...feel I can quite accept this award, not quite yet. I don't feel I have earned it." - choking back tears as he refused to accept the Abraham Lincoln Award from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence in October. Duncan said he didn't deserve the award because rate of gun killings in Chicago public schools was then two per week, Chicago Sun Times...
...Attorney dropped many a memorable sound byte when he unveiled corruption charges against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday, referring to the governor's actions as a "political corruption crime spree" that brought the state's notoriously crooked politics to a "truly new low" and "would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." The rhetoric, called priggish by some, is not surprising for a guy who has built his career fighting Mob bosses, terrorists, drug lords and double-dealing public servants like former Bush aide "Scooter" Libby. "It has become a cliché to compare him to Eliot Ness...
...conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave." - Federal prosecutor and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, on Blagojevich's actions during a Dec. 9 press conference...
...Acker-mansion," on Glendower Road in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of L.A., became a museum and a shrine - Mecca for fan-fans. Show up on a Saturday morning, walk past the Lincoln Continental in the driveway (license plate: SCI FI) and find smiling Forry at the door. He leads a tour of his home, every inch of which is crammed and wallpapered with memorabilia: Bela Lugosi's ring and Dracula cape; Ray Harryhausen's miniature of a shattered U.S. Capitol dome from an entire room dedicated to the silent SF film Metropolis; artifacts and fetishes from...