Reply #24: Well, that's pretty much what I meant in my criticism, saracat. You and I

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exchanged remarks the other evening on Abraham Lincoln.

It bears repeating. You dismissed Obama as saying, "Obama is no Lincoln."

I suggested that 'Lincoln was no Lincoln either," until after he was elected to the White House, after a divided convention by the way. He did not become the great healer of our land during that election cycle, but afterward, in his boldness and unpredictable integrity and faith in the union. No one listening to Lincoln the candidate could have imagined he'd be so deeply revered by generations to follow.

So your point against Obama is incorrect and unfair.

No one in an election cycle knows -- clinically knows -- how a given president-elect will conduct the office.