Over at the Daily Kos, they’re feeling the love for Barack Obama in a manner so demonstrative that even Andrew Sullivan would shudder at the thought of putting such hyperbole down on paper:
Barack Obama is not John Kennedy. He is not Robert Kennedy. He is not Martin Luther King. He is not the Democratic equivalent of Ronald Reagan. He is not simply the anti-thesis of George W. Bush or John McCain.
I hear you asking, “Well who is he then?” Allow the Kos Kid to enlighten you:
Barack Obama is nothing less than our era’s Abraham Lincoln. I do not think this is an exaggeration. In his words, temperment (sic), and actions, there is no figure in American history that Barack Obama resembles more than Lincoln. We should have known this all along.
I find the nod to the similarities between Obama’s and Lincoln’s “actions” especially rich. The way Lincoln carried on through four years of war to save the Union and Obama relied on his political fixer friend to purchase his dream house? Hardly distinguishable! By the way, the Los Angeles Times’s Tim Rutten also reached for the Lincoln comparison. Hysterical hyperbole – its not just for the blogosphere anymore. HT: LGF
