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BARACK OBAMA BEARS STUNNING RESEMBLANCE TO EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Presumptuous Barack Obama isn’t just like Abraham Lincoln — he has also bitten the rhymes of such American notables as Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur. He is truly a chameleon, this Obama. [Eric Spiegelman]
11:10 AM
on Tue December 16 2008
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Sara K. Smith
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I just hope he doesn’t resemble William Henry Harrison in longevity.
There was a song about “The ‘68 Nixon” by the Chad Mitchell trio.
http://craighodgkins.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/the-68-nixon-by-denver-boise-and-johnson/
Part of it went
He is Liberal, and Conservative
He’s humble and he’s proud
He’s more than just a candidate
He’s a crowd….
Of course, none of punks who read Wonkette ever heard of the Chad Mitchell Trio, or Nixon.
For the record, I traveled to Pennsylvania on my own dime several times this fall to knock on doors for Hopey. But the Nixon song seemed to fit the article about Obama. And I’m hoping to post the first comment.
Most Lincolnesque Presidents
1. Barack Obama
2. John F Kennedy
3. Abraham Lincoln
bfstevie: “His rhetoric does include echoes of the 1968 Nixon campaign.”
What? NO! NO NO NO! That is a horrible comparison. It’s similar to comparing real eggs with egg beaters, or a queen to a commoner.
If Barack Obama is like Nixon, in any way, shape or form, then I smite him.
I think he’s Jeffersonian to the max. He has, after all, had sex with black women.
I see some pretty strong parallels with McKinley. I mean, after all, the two men both held a pretty exclusive job called, oh, I don’t know, PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES? Heard of it? I mean, it’s a pretty exlusive list, and they BOTH got the job, how can you not see how they’re similar
Has anybody here
Seen my old friend Campbell Brown?
Can you tell me where she’s gone?
I thought I saw her walking, up over the hills,
With Edward R. Murrow, Eric Severeid and Walter Cronkheit.
If I were extremely bored I would link sex with black women too Mrs Brown to keep my commenting theory correct, but it’s a bit of a stretch.
bfstevie: They did a pretty grat version of “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” too.
Campbell-on-CNN: Ooops. “Great” version. No auto spell check here? Let’s see if I can spell this correctly: CNN 8pm Weeknights.
Abraham Hussein Lincoln!
shortsshortsshorts: I never would equate Nixon with Obama. There are important differences. For example, Checkers was NOT hypoallergenic. I really do like Obama. He sent me a nice text message before he made his acceptance speech. I even incorporated his commemorative plate Blingee into my Christmas card. Please, for the love of God, NO SMOTING! I just like the stupid song.
shortsshortsshorts: The real, giant Campbell Brown will back up everything I say, except she doesn’t remember Nixon or the Chad Mitchel Trio either.
Campbell-on-CNN: Hmmmm. Obviously YOU do remember the Chad Mitchell Trio. It giant Campbell Brown over to the right there that doesn’t. She does look a bit like you. Watch out for random smoting by disgruntled Wonkette readers.
bfstevie: Nixon was still president when Campbell was born. He was president when I was born, too, though I’m older than Campbell, and I still don’t remember him being president.
I was born in September 1969. Sarah Vowell was born in December 1969, and she remembers seeing Watergate coverage on TV, and she remembers seeing Nixon resign. I don’t. I remember Jerry Ford being president, and I remember all kinds of Nixon jokes in Mad Super Specials, and I remember drawing a moustache on Amy Carter’s picture when it was on the cover of the Weekly Reader back in the second grade.
I remember arguing with my brother in 1994 over whether it was appropriate to fly the flag at half staff when Nixon died. He wanted to, but I would have flown as many flags as was possible on that glorious day. But we were at my parents’ house, and they only had the one. I don’t think we wound up flying the thing.
Every August 9 I celebrate Nixon Resignation Day. It makes me happy.
No Franklin Pierce comparisons? Ugh — how soon they forget the Gadsden Purchase.
I wish he’d be like Aaron Burr and shoot Bush.
He could be like William Howard Taft. All he needs to do is grow a moustache and triple his weight.
Everyone start sending care packages full of pork cracklin’s [sic] to the White House right now!
The president that Barack Obama most emulates is Branch Rickey.
Larry McAwful: I’m the proud owner of the UPI broadcast wire’s real time story detailing Nixon’s resignation. That was back when UPI was a real news organization.
SKS: Where did you get that awesome picture? I wantz it!!!!
cal: Never mind, I uzed teh Googlez.
This is not the change we were promised!