Word: lincolnization
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...experience, but experience alone doesn't prove anything about a candidate's ability to serve as President. Consider a former President who, like Obama, hailed from Illinois, lacked a long career in national politics and wasn't favored to win his party's nomination. His name was Abraham Lincoln...
Even the best-intentioned men, once they enter the jungle of power politics, have to confront the necessity of directing actions that they would, in normal circumstances, be in clined to call immoral. The high-minded Abraham Lincoln, for example, was provoked by antiwar agitation into suspending the right of habeas corpus and arresting a number of peaceable citizens who had generally committed no crime worse than being Democrats...
...have always been pro-American, which makes it painful to see the U.S.'s loss of prestige and friends. It is hard to believe that the country of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall and, let us not forget, G.I. Joe of World War II is now accused of torture, ignoring human rights and perverting the truth. Bush may have toppled Saddam Hussein, but he also pushed the U.S. off its pedestal. Meanwhile Osama bin Laden remains at large. Bush would have done well to heed Lincoln's famous words: "You can fool some of the people all of the time...
...they trickled out of Loeb House yesterday, committee members remained mum on the search’s status and strode past reporters into waiting Lincoln Town Cars...
...campaign debates. Daley doesn't engage in them because, plain and simple, he doesn't have to. The result is a generation of young Chicagoans who have never seen their mayor or his opponents articulating their positions on the pressing issues of the day. "It wouldn't be the Lincoln-Douglas debates, but it would be better than nothing," said a frustrated Stewart. Assuming he completes another four-year term, Daley, 64, will have served longer than his legendary father Richard M. Daley, who had been mayor for 21 years when he died in office...