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George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'
US News & World Report - Washington Whispers ^ | 2008-12-23 | Justin Ewers

Posted on 12/23/2008 12:25:58 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Few people come as quickly to the defense of George McGovern as McGovern himself. The antiwar senator from South Dakota lost to Richard Nixon in a landslide in the 1972 presidential election, only to see Nixon, caught up in the Watergate scandal, resign in disgrace. For McGovern, though—along with many Democrats who followed him—the damage was done, and the now retired politician has spent decades defending the electability of antiwar liberals, insisting his campaign was undone by dirty tricks and bad luck. In recent years, McGovern, 86, hasn't relinquished the spotlight, condemning the war in Iraq and declaring Barack Obama, whom he endorsed after initially supporting Hillary Clinton, a "second Abraham Lincoln."

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KEYWORDS: barf; bho2008; democrats; endorsement; gagme; mcgovern; obama; obamatransitionfile; obarfbag; rats
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To: rabscuttle385
George McGovern: Barack Obama Is a 'Second Lincoln'

I agree. A second Lincoln Chaffee.

21 posted on 12/23/2008 12:36:02 PM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: rabscuttle385

When will this preposterous meme end?


22 posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rabscuttle385

And George McGovers is a rustic Runner-Up who lacks imagination... is merely parroting some other layabout’s words.


23 posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:31 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
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To: clintonh8r

“stupid old man....”

McGoober would think that Bozo the clown, or Peanut Brain
Carter was the second coming.


24 posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:35 PM PST by AlexW (Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Never mind the fact that Lincoln was a Republican (former Whig) and Obama is a lib Democrat.


25 posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:39 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: rabscuttle385

That silly bastard McGovern ought to know about ‘Lincolns’ since he was revealed as an Edsel in ‘72.

And 0bama is a remanufactured Yugo.


26 posted on 12/23/2008 12:37:52 PM PST by mkjessup
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To: mylife
When will this preposterous meme end?

Let them keep placing him on high, the fall will only be greater when reality hits. If they are billing him as the greatest ever, when he shows he's mediocre at best, the perception will be further tarnished. Worst ever, maybe?

27 posted on 12/23/2008 12:38:39 PM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: clintonh8r

Watch your language!


28 posted on 12/23/2008 12:38:55 PM PST by An Old Man
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To: Cincinatus

Snort!


29 posted on 12/23/2008 12:39:08 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama would be a second McGovern if not for the incompetence of the McCain campaign.


30 posted on 12/23/2008 12:40:12 PM PST by exist
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To: An Old Man

Sorry! (Im there too!)


31 posted on 12/23/2008 12:42:46 PM PST by clintonh8r (For the first time in my life I'm ashamed of my country.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Well then, if Mr. Obama is the second Lincoln, then Michelle Obama is Betty Crocker.

Good Lord, Mr. McGovern has, apparently, gone round the bend.


32 posted on 12/23/2008 12:46:27 PM PST by RexBeach
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To: Cincinatus
A second Lincoln Chaffee.
LOL!
33 posted on 12/23/2008 12:46:42 PM PST by samtheman
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To: rabscuttle385

Mybe Obama will be the white man’s Lincoln and free the white man from being slaves of the politically correct.

Ever since LBJ dreamed up the War On Poverty and The great Society whites (especially employed white males) have increasingly become second class citizens.

When society says it allows preferred treatment for one group what that really means is that it discriminates against another.

Forty years after MLK, whites have the same dream he had - We dream that all Americans will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Obama, we Hope you can bring Change for us too.


34 posted on 12/23/2008 12:47:46 PM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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To: rabscuttle385

Why wait..........let’s just change the penny, replace the memorial in DC, and add Obama’s face to Rushmore now......


35 posted on 12/23/2008 12:47:53 PM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: samtheman
Maybe another George Lincoln Rockwell.


36 posted on 12/23/2008 12:49:36 PM PST by CholeraJoe (It was a great party until the SWAT team tossed in the flash-bangs and tear gas.)
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To: massgopguy

i think it means he is going to free the whites....yippie....


37 posted on 12/23/2008 12:50:40 PM PST by tatsinfla
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To: rabscuttle385
According to a press release by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, President-Elect Barack Obama will be sworn in using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used for that purpose

I wasn't aware Lincoln was sworn in with the Qu'ran.


38 posted on 12/23/2008 12:51:56 PM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: rabscuttle385

In his day, Lincoln was the most hated President this nation has ever produced; no other even comes into the running for that title. Saying the Lincoln was a “healing figure” isn’t some minor distortion of an arcane point of history; it’s a wholesale rejection of even the slightest understanding of his entire presidency. He was also about as far from an “anti-war” president as any man could possibly be.


39 posted on 12/23/2008 12:52:21 PM PST by eclecticEel (In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush)
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To: tatsinfla
i think it means he is going to free the whites....yippie....

I don't know about freeing the whites, but it would be nice to see a president that would want to free the taxpayers.

40 posted on 12/23/2008 12:52:25 PM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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