The Obama Camp has made a great many attempts to frame their greenhorn candidate in the mold of Abraham Lincoln. For example Obama announced his candidacy outside the old Illinois state capital building, while sounding rhetoric evoking of Abraham Lincoln. Moreover, the media is seldom yielding in comparing Obama and Lincoln, touting that Lincoln served roughly the same amount of time in the state senate and had not real executive experience before becoming president. Their ultimate goal is to have you believe that Obama “mirrors” Republican Abraham Lincoln, while Lincoln successfully steered our nation through a volatile civil war and whose legacy aided us through reconciliation. So Obama will do just fine with 3AM phone calls from hotspots like the Middle East and the remerging Soviet Union . Right? I am not so sure.

Now for arguments sake, let us stick with what the Obama camp quips, that it is judgment that most matters with the presidency. Therefore let us compare the judgment of Lincoln and Obama on the greatest moral issue of their time: slavery and abortion respectably, after all, the democrats already compare the two men . During an 1858 debates at Galesburg, Illinois Lincoln had this to say regarding slavery “Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil…”Now, during Pasture Warren’s faith Forum recently Obama muttered this about Abortion, “Well, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

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