In today’s Washington Post we learn what Obama thinks about Abraham Lincoln…as if we didn’t know it already. “Lincoln’s my favorite president and one of my personal heroes,” Obama said. “…What I admire so deeply about Lincoln–number one, I think he’s the quintessential American because he’s self-mde. The way Alexander Hamilton was self-made or so many of our great iconic Americans are, that sense that you don’t accept limits, that you can shape your own destiny. That obviously has appeal to me, given where I came from. That American spirit is one of the things that is most fundamental to me, and I think he embodies that.
“But the second thing that I admire is that there is just a deep-rooted honesty and empathy to the man that allowed him to always be able to see the other person’s point of view and always sought to find that truth that is in the gap between you and me.”
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