Sullivan: We Must Burn Atlanta To Save Obama!

Don't stop the crazy, Andrew, it suits you. But please drop the conservative, it makes you a liar. Andy couldn't even get through two short sentences of his own without blowing it. So, if Obama needs to burn Atlanta, I guess Bush was right to drown New Orleans?? heh!

A reader writes:

Don't forget the President is still following the script from Doris Kearns-Goodwin's A Team of Rivals, along with all his other readings on Lincoln.  President Lincoln calmly, deliberately, and with a lot of mistakes and few successes for several years led us to victory in the Civil War.  Oftentimes he was at odds with his own party, at least the "Radical Republican" wing.  Lincoln, and much of the North, even believed he would lose the election for a second term until Sherman took Atlanta. That's the model Obama is following with regard to the Republican insurgency, slow, steady, smart, and ultimately, successful (we still hope). 

Trust me. I have not forgotten. It informs every judgment I make on the guy. I remain absolutely convinced we are beyond lucky to have him st thi moment in history - and he deserves far more grass-roots support from his supporters than he's currently getting.

Comments

[Philip McDaniel]

I doubt very seriously that Obama thinks of Lincoln at all...and if he does -- if my reading of his character is right -- it is with a sense of bitter anger and disgust. In short, that Lincoln did not measure up...but that he will. As far as Sullivan's comment, I have to agree with him that we are beyond lucky to have Obama with us at this moment in history. But not for the reason he thinks. Rather because of him we are able to flush all the loony birds and nuthaches out into the open where we can get clear sight of them.

[kansas]

Obama said he wanted to be Lincoln. Looks like he's trying to start a civil war.

[Magic Eight Ball]

Too bad Obama is actually Jefferson Davis: prickly, a know it all, and too stubborn to change strategy when he was losing. Davis was pilloried by his adversaries too. We all know how that turned out.

[Fred Beloit]

"... lucky to have him st thi moment in history..."

Andy made a little mistake here. Let me help him out by fixing what he meant to say: "sucky to have him at this sh--ty moment in history".

[SDN]

And, of course, like Jefferson Davis and every Copperhead since, he's a slavery fan. Plantation or collective: what's the difference?

[SacTownMan]

Luck like this we don't need!!

[unseen]

more like ahab tracking his white wahle