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Abe Lincoln's Birthday: What's His Legacy?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe past is continually but a second away from being born, and how one portrays it can make all the difference as to how the future will be lived. As witnessed by the current battle over FDR's response to the Great Depression (the Left wants to give the New Deal programs credit for solving the crisis, while the Right is a attempting, what seems to me, something of a revision), history is often but a rope on which two conflicting sides stand at opposite sides and pull. No figure in our country's lifespan has played that rope more than Abraham Lincoln, and on this, the day that "Honest Abe" ...
Obama Asks WWLE? (What Would Lincoln Eat?)
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThank God that Doris Kearns Goodwin didn't write a profile of Montezuma's cabinet. Otherwise they'd be eating human flesh at Barack Obama's inauguration!In case you don't follow, the president-elect has shown what you might call a bit of an obsession with Abraham Lincoln, the subject of Goodwin's book Team of Rivals. First he started filling his cabinet with former political opponents-- just like Lincoln. Then he announced he'd be taking the oath of office using Lincoln's Bible.And now he plans to start his presidency with the same meal that Honest Abe ate in 1861...The Inaugural Luncheon is a ...
The Top 4 Riders of Barack Obama's Coattails
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyIf we had to pick an overall winner of the year 2008, it would have to be Michael Phelps, who, despite being a swimmer, achieved celebrity status normally reserved for biathletes.But Barack Obama did pretty well himself, picking up the United States Presidency and three and a half million Facebook friends.And you know who also won big? The people riding Obama's coattails! Unlike the president-elect, who only got power and nuclear weapons, these people got money, fame and/or fulfillment of lifelong dreams. Let's meet them...Winner: Doris Kearns Goodwin. Her book on the Lincoln cabinet, Team of ...
McCain/Palin: Team of Rivals
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn her much acclaimed biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles the relationship between Lincoln and three of his advisers--William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. None of them men was particularly fond of Lincoln, thinking him something of an inexperienced hick. But Lincoln, as described by Goodwin, followed to the adage, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer," and gave each of his critics a job in his administration.In our current presidential campaign we're seeing a similar dynamic in play. This time, however, the would-be ...
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