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PROVIDENCE SENT OBAMA TO FOLLOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FOOTSTEPS.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)

Article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) Article date: November 07, 2008

To the Editor:

I loved Frank Cammuso's Nov. 5 cartoon of Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln -- both with big ears, the better to listen to the people.

Perhaps Lincoln is Obama's spiritual father, since his biological one was absent. Surely they are kindred spirits in their wisdom, intellect and inner strength, as well as in soberness and self-discipline.

I'm deeply thankful that in a time of great crisis, providence sent Obama to follow in Lincoln's footsteps and unite the country. How serendipitous that when Obama takes office we'll be remembering Lincoln in the year ...

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Obama as Writer: He's the 'Real Deal'

Posted Jul 8, 08 2:37 PM CDT in Arts & Living,  Opinion,  Politics 

Obama as Writer: He's the 'Real Deal'
Source: AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

(Newser) – If it's true that the style is the man, then it makes sense, literary critic Andrew Delbanco writes in the New Republic, to take the measure of Barack Obama from his memoirs. Taking a tour of Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope, Delbanco finds a bit of overwriting, a propensity for cinematic flourishes, a sensitivity to the complexities of character, and an ability to use local details to "open out into universal experience."

Delbanco applauds Obama for having “consciously emulated” Abraham Lincoln as "a man of self-doubt yet with an unswerving sense of mission." Some consider it hubristic, but, he concludes, "to me, it feels like heartfelt homage from someone with a keen sense of the complexities and commonalities of human experience. On the hopeful premise that style really does tell us something about the man, this man—to my ear, at least-—is the real deal."

Source: New Republic

More about:  Barack Obama • literature • Abraham Lincoln • leadership • hubris

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