Jonah Goldberg of National Review takes all those claims about Obama being the new Lincoln to the woodshed for a very deserved whuppin'. He makes two very, very important points that most of the media has missed:
1) Obama has not done anything yet. Anything. Before we talk about him restoring faith and hope and love and happiness and good cheer to America, let's see his first couple days in office. His first couple hours, at least.
2) Lincoln governed under pretty...extreme circumstances. In fact, that's something most of our great presidents have had in common. Lincoln had the Civil War. FDR had the Great Depression and World War II. And George Washington had to guide the country through the painful aftereffects of revolution and independence.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather have a mediocre-to-good president in good times than a great president in bleak times. Is that a betrayal of everything that makes America great? Not really, I think.
Great presidents are the exception. Decent presidents are the rule. It's time we recognized that sometimes the humdrum presidents can do a little good for the country.
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