Obama Jokes About Gregg During Tribute To Lincoln

[bijou]

While marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth last night in Springfield Ill., President Barack Obama made light of Sen. Judd Gregg's decision yesterday to withdraw his nomination as commerce secretary.

"In 1854, Lincoln was simply a Springfield lawyer who'd served just a single term in Congress," Mr. Obama told the approximately 900 guests at the 102nd Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet. "Possibly in his law office, his feet on a cluttered desk, his sons playing around him, his clothes a bit too small to fit his uncommon frame, maybe wondering if somebody might call him up and ask him to be commerce secretary."

It wasn't the only moment in his remarks that Mr. Obama would draw parallels between Lincoln's troubled time and current political and economic struggles. Seizing on Lincoln's example, Mr. Obama called on Americans to remain unified in the face of daunting challenges.

"And when posterity looks back on our time, as we are looking back on Lincoln's," Mr. Obama said. "I don't want it said that we saw an economic crisis but did not stem it; that we saw our schools decline and our bridges crumble but we did not rebuild them; that the world changed in the 21st century but America did not lead it; that we were consumed with small things, petty things, when we were called to do great things."
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Classy

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Mr Preisdent,

If Sen Gregg is such a $#!+bag as to merit public mocking why did you choose him?

[docstew]

he only became worthy of public mocking when he refused Teh One...

[Tess Anderson]

Ahhh, I see the Chicago gangster side of him is coming out again. By Barack Hussein Obama's "logic", anybody who ever lived in Illinois is "just like Lincoln", even though the latter served almost 150 years ago and was a Republican, not a communist.