Is Obama JFK, FDR, Lincoln- or Carter?
Despite 70% approval ratings for the way he's handled the transition so far, I continue to believe that Barack Obama will go down in history as the second coming not of John F. Kennedy or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Abraham Lincoln, but of Jimmy Carter. Here is an article by Phillip Jenkins of The American Conservative which supports that belief.
And here is a post by John F. Harris and Alexander Burns of Politico on the skepticism of many historians with regard to the media's syncophantic identification of our untried president-elect with Lincoln, the greatest president we've ever had.
Whereas here is an article by Andrew Romano in (shudder) Newsweek on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal- the "Republican Obama-" who says that he's not running for president in 2012 (we'll see).
HT: Real Clear Politics
And here is a post by John F. Harris and Alexander Burns of Politico on the skepticism of many historians with regard to the media's syncophantic identification of our untried president-elect with Lincoln, the greatest president we've ever had.
Whereas here is an article by Andrew Romano in (shudder) Newsweek on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal- the "Republican Obama-" who says that he's not running for president in 2012 (we'll see).
HT: Real Clear Politics
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