Gingrich: The Obama Experience
I almost spit out my coffee when I heard this on Meet the Press:
FMR. REP. GINGRICH: I—look, I’ve known Al Gore for many, many years. If he runs, he’ll be a serious contender, but I think he would be fourth on that list of plausible people. I actually think Barack Obama’s having as good as run as anyone could hope for, and he’s doing it by being positive, by being engaging, and by being above all the negative Washington-based, you know, this morning’s hotline nasty attack, you know, e-mail kind of stuff. And I think if he can sustain that, despite the best efforts of many of my good friends in the media to drag him down to mere issues, he could become very formidable.MR. RUSSERT: Does he have enough experience to be president of the United States?
FMR. REP. GINGRICH: Well, Abraham Lincoln served two years in the U.S. House, and seemed to do all right.
Meet the Press wasn't the first time we've heard Obama compared to Lincoln. We also heard it on CapitolFax, and the other day future Obama for President consultant David Axelrod made the implicit comparison, when he said what this country really needs right now is a unifier.
It's going to be pretty tough for the right wingers to snipe at Obama's lack of incumbency when Gingrich is comparing him to Abraham Lincoln.
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Gingrich is trying to reform his image as a fire-breathing partisan by saying as many nice things about Democrats as he can (witness his recent flattery of Hillary Clinton).
The “right wingers” aren’t going to snipe about Obama’s experience. They are going to go after him for being a phony “centrist.”
Hillary Clinton's crowd will snipe on Obama's experience. Not the GOP or Conservatives or the Right Wing.
Obama's from Illinois and while not the son of slaves, he's African-American. If that doesn't invite a call to Lincoln I don't know what does.
Lincoln would certainly be proud to see a United States were Barack Obama can be a serious contender for President. I think almost every reader of this blog would be pround for America regardless of how we feel about Obama's politics, positions, or relationships with a name I won't sully the post with.
I'm happy to see him run. Proud of Illinois to have elected him... so please let him run and face the test of American Democracy.
"It's going to be pretty tough for the right wingers to snipe at Obama's lack of incumbency when Gingrich is comparing him to Abraham Lincoln."
The sniping at Obama won't be coming from "right wingers." It will be coming from the Clintons and their allies. And comparisons to Jesus Christ himself won't stop them.
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